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A System of Treatment to Maintain the Body and 
Mind in Health, and to Cure all curable Physical 
and Mental Diseases, by Use of The Eleven 
Tissue-Remedies, or Cell-Foods, Dis- 
covered, and First used by Dr. 
Wilhelm Heinrich Schuessler, 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

CHAPTER PAGE 

I. Vis Medicatrix Naturae 9 

II. How Nature Heals 14 

III. How the Tissue Remedies are 

Made 19 

IV. The Marvel of Human Chemistry 25 

V. Dr. Boericke's Digest of Biochem- 
istry 31 

VI. Prominent Properties of the Salts 40 

VII. Extracts from Schuessler's Bio- 

chemic Therapy 46 

VIII. Review of Schuessler's Practice. . 56 

IX. Special Characteristics 62 

X. The Practice of Medicine 68 

XL Summarized Guide to Use of Salts 74 

XII. Conclusion 82 



INTRODUCTION. 

t The treatment of Disease of the human body is 
something that should be in the hands of the 
owner of the body. No one else knows so well 
that all is not right as the owner. Dr. Schuess- 
ler, of Oldenburg, Germany, some twenty-five 
years ago, discovered, taught, and practiced, his 
theory of the Cure of Disease by use of the min- 
eral cell-salts always present in healthy human 
blood, lymph and tissue. He called his System of 
Medicine, BIOCHEMISTRY. For the first 
time in the history of man, so far as our knowl- 
edge of man extends, we have in this System of 
Medicine a means of curing all human diseases 
that are curable by any form of medicine. And 
for the first time we have a rational, reasonable, 
scientifically sound System of Medicine which is 
within the grasp of the layman. There is nothing 
in Biochemistry which is abstruse or forbidding. 
It is all clear and simple. The purpose of this 
book is to supplement Schuessler's Abridged 
Therapy, which is the only book, a small one, 
that he left behind him. Equipped with this 
little book and a copy of Schuessler's book the 
layman is in possession of the right method of 
dealing with his own disorders. He is not ad- 
vised to practice Biochemistry as a Profession. 
He is invited only, by making himself master of 
the simple instructions ^iven in the pa^es follow- 
ing, to understand some of the more important 
processes that are going on in his own body, and 



INTRODUCTION 

learn what to do and what to use to right such 
disturbances of function, inflammation, etc., as 
fall into the category of Diseases. It would seem 
to be entirely the layman's business to make his 
own body well if it is ill. Apart from the matter 
of expense, there is too much confusion between 
the various Schools of Medicine. Biochemistry 
seems to offer the Right System of Medicine as 
opposed to the Wrong Systems. 

This book is written to teach you how to use 
Right Medicine. 

Chicago : October, 1920. 



CHAPTER I. 

VIS MEDICATRIX NATURAE 

The human machine is self -building, self- 
cleansing, self-repairing and self-destroying. In 
health man is immune to disease. Malignant 
bacteria lie in wait for their opportunity to work 
mischief, but are apparently unable to effect their 
purpose while the resistive powers of the man 
are normal. Should this resistance be weakened 
for any one of a number of reasons, the micro- 
organisms effect their lodgment, multiply at in- 
credible speed by division, or by budding, and 
either attack in force locally or spread through- 
out the system. But, because the body is self- 
protecting, the normal state of man is a state of 
health, and disease is abnormal. This is a fact 
of the utmost importance. 

When in the old days men fell sick they were 
promptly bled by the attending physician, this 
duty of blood-letting being the chief accomplish- 
ment of the leech, as he was then named. Phle- 
botomy, or bleeding, was considered a striking 
advance upon the earlier dreadful decoctions of 
bats, mice, beetles, etc., etc., by which the earlier 
practitioners of healing set great store. 

In their search for possible healing properties 
in plants, minerals, and animal organs and ex- 
tracts, the disciples of Aesculapius have per- 
formed herculean labors. They have bruised, 
distilled, compounded, brayed in a mortar, rolled, 
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10 BIOCHEMISTRY 

dissolved, and in some form or other poured into 
the mouths of their patients, every known species 
of plant, every kind of earth and mineral, and 
the juices of most birds and animals which have 
made this earth their home since antediluvian 
days. From this quest modern medical science 
emerges, comes to the surface, a little out of 
breath, naturally, with its arms filled with a vast 
array of drugs, simple and compound, extracts, 
salves, potions, liniments, etc., etc., which, it says, 
have been proved by repeated tests to possess 
healing qualities. Unfortunately, though the 
human tests of these many remedies have been 
pushed with unflinching vigor upon the sick, 
though these unfortunates have been dosed and 
drugged till the grave closed over them, the 
exact knowledge which should have resulted from 
all this experimenting did not materialize, and 
has not materialized. We should withhold no 
credit from the profession of medicine to which 
its labors entitle it, and there is no doubt of the 
fact that the search has been arduous and tho- 
rough. It is a pity that the results are so meagre 
that they suggest a doubt that it might have been 
as well for the world today if the search had 
never been made at all. 

The outstanding fact today is that there is no 
such thing as medical science at all. There is 
only medical experiment. This is proved by the 
amazing spectacle of two great schools of medi- 
cine, disagreeing with each other fundamentally 
and in detail on their findings as to the right 
remedies to be administered to the sick, and the 
right methods of administering them. It is no 
slight difference of opinion that divides them. 



BIOCHEMISTRY 11 

Here is a yawning chasm of irreconcilable con- 
clusions between the allopath with his "shot- 
gun" prescriptions and the homoeopath with his 
equally absurd "hair-of-the-dog-that-bit-you" 
theory of cure. Both schools share with each 
other the gross error of pinning their faith upon 
such poisons to protoplasm as mercury, arsenic, 
coal-tar products, such as acetanilid, and, 
strychnine, belladonna, quinine, etc., etc., as of 
benefit in restoring a human being to a condi- 
tion of health, but,^f there is any merit in the 
fact that a poison is least harmful when it is 
administered in a microscopically minute form, 
the school of homoeopathy can claim that dis- 
tinction. 

Viewing this spectacle of disagreement of the 
schools of medicine with just discontent, the in- 
telligent part of the public, holding the opinion 
that this matter was very much its affair, since 
it paid the price of this medical bungling in 
pocket, in person, and in life itself, decided that 
it would see what it could do in the matter of 
attending to its own health in future, and forth- 
with there came into being many and divers sys- 
tems and methods of treating disease and pro- 
moting health, some of which were based upon 
material means, as osteopathy, chiropractic, hy- 
dropathy, Swedish movements, and electro- 
therapy, and some upon mental or spiritual 
means, as christian science, suggestive therapeu- 
tics, mental science, magnetic healing, etc., etc., 
all of which were conceived, developed, practiced 
and taught by laymen to laymen, with the excep- 
tion of osteopathy, which was originated by Dr. 
Still, a physician of Kirksville, Missouri. Some 



12 BIOCHEMISTRY 

of these drugless methods have passed their apex, 
but m^st of them are strong, and many are 
growing stronger. The explanation of the suc- 
cess they meet with is, of course, that there is 
such a thing as the Healing Force of Nature, 
that this natural healing force is most active when 
the mind of the patient is stimulated, and that 
this stimulation varies in people, some respond- 
ing to a suggestion of divine interposition, some 
preferring an agreeable shock to a nerve, some 
requiring a sharp punching of the muscles, bu£ 
each reacting beneficially sooner or later to the 
means best adapted to his particular constitution. 
Nor should it be forgotten that in all these cases 
of patients helped by drugless methods they were 
directly assisted by the fact that they were not 
taking into their stomachs liquids and substances 
harmful to the body, and the means employed to 
benefit them either stimulated them to hope or 
removed obstructions to the circulation, and 
tended to restore the physical body to its normal 
condition of activity of the functions of the 
organs. The result is apparent that the public is 
much better off than it was before these methods 
of drugless healing came into existence, and is 
much better satisfied with itself. The step as a 
whole was towards self-government, which is the 
right and proper aim of men and nations. 

It does not require special gifts of foresight 
to perceive that until the differing schools of 
medicine adopt some form of compromise of 
opinion that shall merge them into one school, 
the term "science" as applied to medicine will 
become a jest of increasing pungency^ as the 
years pass. For their own preservation the 



BIOCHEMISTRY 13 

merging or amalgamation must be effected 
somehow, and that soon. Eclectic Medicine 
strove for a time to this end and ingloriously 
passed. Alkaloidal Therapy still breathes, sits 
up and takes nourishment, but it rather pur- 
sues its own theory of the active principle of 
the alkaloid in all drugs than seeks to reconcile 
disputing schools to one another. We offer 
here and now a solemn warning to physicians 
everywhere, in all lands, that the common- 
sense of the public repudiates the term ''medi- 
cal science" while the professors of such 
science are unable to determine themselves 
what is scientific and what is not. 

Having done our part in their interest to 
utter this warning that they may secure their 
own preservation, we are entitled to ask some 
small favor at their hands in return. The medi- 
cal colleges throughout the world are turning 
out probably not less than 100,000 young men 
and women annually, each with head so well- 
stocked with book-learnt ideas of what drugs 
will cure disease that they are prepared to 
launch their attack upon the persons, pockets 
and lives of their fellow-beings without an in- 
stant's delay, and each determined to earn at 
least three square meals a day by this attack. 
We ask if it is not possible in some way to stem 
this tide of eager incompetents? 



CHAPTER II 

HOW NATURE HEALS 

If the osteopath is asked how and in what 
way osteopathy cures a headache he will 
answer, "by scientific manipulation of the 
muscles and tendons affected, thus removing 
the congestion that was the cause of the pain." 
This is a good answer, which could be ex- 
tended to include, "by restoring the normal cir- 
culation of the blood governing the affected 
parts." Evidently the healing power of Na- 
ture, as manifested by and through osteopathic 
treatment is resident in the blood. If the 
same question is asked of a chiropractor, who 
has just been jabbing my bare spine with his 
kunckles, he will answer, "by restoring to their 
right position certain tendons of the spine 
that were out of place, causing a congestion of 
the circulation by interference with the nerve- 
currents. When the spinal nerves are able to 
function rightly the whole man is right, man 
being a cerebro-spinal animal." This answer, 
though not so convincing as that of the osteo- 
path, because less evidently true to my dark- 
ened intelligence, is yet clear enough on the 
point that cures of chiropractics are effected 
by restoration of the normal circulation by 
means of readjustments of the spine, which 
act as stimulators of the nerve-centers. Evi- 
dently again the healing power of nature, as 
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BIOCHEMISTRY 15 

manifested by and through chiropractic treat- 
ment is resident in the blood. 

If the christian scientist is asked how and 
in what way christian science cures disease, 
the healer will answer, "by recognition of 
Positive Divine Mind," which may or may 
not mean anything to you, according to your 
training in the intricacies of Mrs. Eddy's use 
of words. You gather, however, this impor- 
tant clue, that christian science, in denying 
the reality of disease, affirms the normal thing, 
Health, as the existing reality. Since in health 
the blood-stream is the river on whose broad 
bosom float or are carried all the elements of 
nutrition and supply that build the physical 
body, you would be justified in saying that 
christian science cures by use of the healing 
power resident in the blood, but you would not 
succeed in getting any christian science healer 
to corroborate your conclusion in the same 
words. It is immaterial whether the christian 
scientist agrees with our conclusion or objects 
to it. The point here is that reasonable men 
and women in trying to find the means used 
by spirit or mind to effect a certain cure are 
driven to the conclusion that the means used 
is the blood, or the nerve-currents acting upon 
the blood. If, still looking for information, 
you ask the same question of the hydropath, 
he answers instantly, "by restoring the nor- 
mal circulation of the blood." There is no 
doubt in his mind on the matter. Ask the 
electro-therapist, and his answer is the same. 
Ask the mental scientist, and after he has 
expatiated upon the power of Mind, he will 



16 BIOCHEMISTRY 

explain that Mind cures because of its power 
over the body, which is the same thing as to 
say, because of its power to restore normal cir- 
culation of the blood. Ask the physician who 
uses suggestion only upon his patients how 
his cures are effected and he will tell you that 
the power of the mind over the body is so com- 
plete that it needs only to be exercised to in- 
hibit pain, stimulate the organs, and restore 
the nervous and circulatory systems to their 
normal condition, which is Health. In short, 
whichever way you turn for information on 
this subject, you come at last to the conclu- 
sion that the healing force of nature is resi- 
dent in the blood and tissues of the human 
being, and that it needs to be roused to activ- 
ity by physical or mental stimulation, or both. 
It semed to Dr. Schuessler that since this 
blood of man carries the body-building mate- 
rial that creates the healthy human body, from 
head to foot, cell by cell, forming blood-cells, 
nerve-cells, brain-cells, tissue-cells and bone- 
cells, by the aid of air, water and food, the 
blood in health must disclose to the patient 
investigator the means it uses to build the 
body, and to maintain the body in health, and 
that this secret of nature's building if found, 
must comprise a complete system of medi- 
cine in itself, seeing that the material of which 
the body is built must be also the material that 
is used to maintain the body in its normal 
state of health, and therefore must be also the 
material used to cure disorder and disease. 
Evidently if health is the normal state of man 
then the body is capable of self-defense against 



BIOCHEMISTRY 17 

malignant micro-organisms, and if for any rea- 
son the blood is not carrying, such quan- 
tity of this building-material as the cells and 
organs need to maintain that condition of 
harmony of the cells which is Health, it should 
be possible for man to assist nature by ad- 
ministering this building-material in the mi- 
nute form in which the blood carries it to the 
cells and tissues. When, for any reason, there 
is a lack of this building-material in blood or 
tissues, the cells being disturbed in their mo- 
tion must evince this disturbance by signs, and 
the correct reading of such signs will indicate 
what building-material is lacking. This is 
Schuessler's Biochemistry, a system of supply- 
ing a deficiency of this building-material, in 
the minute form in which it is present in 
healthy human blood and tissue. Its simplic- 
ity adapts it to the comprehension and use of 
the layman. It is not perfect. It is not com- 
plete. It leaves much to the findings of later 
research. But it is the only successful at- 
tempt that has ever been made to put medical 
science upon a scientific basis, and it is 
founded strictly in accord with the building- 
plan of Nature herself in the growth and de- 
velopment of the vegetable and animal king- 
doms. Even a solid foundation is much to be 
thankful for, and this Biochemistry assuredly 
affords. 

It was by reading Moleschott's dictum : 
"Man is compounded of earth and air; the 
activities of plants called him into being!" 
that Dr. Schuessler was led to found his sys- 
tem of Biochemistry. We are not told the 



18 BIOCHEMISTRY 

steps by which he deduced that the activities 
of the mineral salts of the blood in their vari- 
ous combinations of phosphates, sulphates and 
chlorides were, in truth, responsible for the 
health of the individual, nor have we his own 
record of experiments and tests by which he 
determined the parts played by these mineral 
particles in cell-building and the functioning 
of organs. His book, "Biochemistry," is very 
brief and incomplete, though it ran through 
eight editions and has been translated into 
many languages. In the first edition of the 
book he based his system and treatment upon 
TWELVE mineral combinations, which he 
called Cell-salts, but in his later years of prac- 
tice, and in the last edition of his book, printed 
in 1895, he reduced his armament from twelve 
remedies to ELEVEN. They are as under : 

Potassium Chloride, Potassium Phosphate, 
Potassium Sulphate ; Sodium Chloride, Sodium 
Phosphate, Sodium Sulphate ; Phosphate of 
Lime, Fluoride of Lime ; Phosphate of Magne- 
sia ; Phosphate of Iron ; Silica. 

Their Latin abbreviations are : 

Kali. Mur., Kali. Phos., Kali. Sulph. ; 
Natrum Mur., Natrum Phos., Natrum Sulph. ; 
Calc. Phos., Calc. Fluor. ; Magnesia Phos. ; 
Ferrum Phos. ; Silicea. 

This is the total number of mineral elements 
carried in the constant constitution of the 
blood in health, from infancy to old age, 
namely, three combinations of potash, three 
combinations of soda, two of lime, besides 
magnesia and iron in the form of phosphates, 
and silica, or quartz. 



CHAPTER III 
HOW THE TISSUE REMEDIES ARE MADE 

Schuessler's Biochemistry is founded upon 
the findings of modern chemistry with regard 
to the structure of the tissue-cell, to the extent 
that the contents of each microscopical cell are 
accepted as being made up of innumerable 
particles of matter, animal and mineral, mov- 
ing rapidly within the circumference of the cell 
itself, the motion of the molecules of which the 
contents are formed being naturally deter- 
mined by the quantity of the molecules pres- 
ent in the cell. The normal quantity therefore 
represents right motion of the contents, or 
Health, the wrong quantity represents wrong 
motion, or Disease. Biochemistry reaches far, 
but it does not attempt to reach to the distri- 
bution of electrons, which modern chemistry 
believes to consist of electricity. Biochemistry 
stops at the production of molecules of mineral 
matter, which is the form in which the blood 
makes use of its mineral matter. 

It may be said at once that it is not possible 
for the layman to manufacture his own Tissue 
Remedies. The process requires special ma- 
chinery, and special accuracy. Nor is it possi- 
ble for any layman to make use of the informa- 
tion given in this book for the purpose of put- 
ting on the market an article or group of arti- 
cles, under trade names, as proprietary remed- 
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20 BIOCHEMISTRY 

ies warranted to cure this, that, or the other 
disease. Impossible is perhaps, too strong a 
word to use in this connection. He might do as 
supposed, but if the public is informed before- 
hand of the foolishness of wasting its money 
on any proprietary remedies whatsoever, and 
given adequate reason for this warning, as in 
this explanation of the principles of Biochem- 
istry, it is unlikely that the patent remedy so 
exploited will have more than a very brief 
business career. To a public forewarned that 
Biochemistry is complete to the extent of cur- 
ing all ills whatsoever that are curable by the 
administration of any medicine whatsoever it 
would seem that the proprietary medicine 
would carry no appeal. This is one of the 
reasons for this book. 

There are probably a dozen large firms in 
the United States who make a specialty of the 
manufacture of Schuessler's Tissue Remedies, 
in addition to their regular business of manu- 
facturing homeopathic remedies, and of these 
a few may be mentioned as outstanding names. 
In Philadelphia, Boericke and Tafel ; in St. 
Louis, The Luyties Pharmacal Company; in 
Chicago, Halsey Bros., and Chicago Pharmacal 
Company, 645 St. Clair St. This last-named 
ranks highest in the opinion of the writer, not 
because the others are less conscientious and 
accurate, but solely because he has purchased 
his Schulesser Remedies for the past five years 
from this firm, has found their Cell-salts satis- 
factory and their prices in 1 lb. lots, tablet- 
form, satisfactory. This indorsement is not 
solicited by the manager of that firm. It is not 



BIOCHEMISTRY 21 

paid for. It cannot lead to any business con- 
nection between the writer and the firm. It 
is offered for your best information on a point 
of some importance to every reader of this 
book. 

Only the homeopathic manufacturing chem- 
ists produce these Tissue Remedies, because 
only they are equipped with the triturating 
machines required to prepare the salts and 
only they make it their business to produce the 
minutely divided particles in their high poten- 
cies according to homeopathic procedure. It 
is a slow process, involving patience and deli- 
cate measuring adjustments. You will realize 
its need for accuracy when you remember that 
Homeopathv uses medicines in the 200th 
potency quite frequently, and you will get 
some idea of what work is necessary to pro- 
duce a medicine of this potency when you 
understand the labor involved in producing 
such comparatively low potencies as the 6th 
and 12th, which are the two potencies used 
by Schuessler himself in his latest edition of 
Biochemistry. His rule must be your rule. 
It is very easy of remembrance. He used three 
of the eleven salts in the 12th decimal tritura- 
tion, or 12 X, because the particles were not 
soluble in water, namely, iron, silica and fluor- 
ide of lime ; and he used the other eight in the 
6th decimal trituration, or 6 X, because being 
soluble in water they could be put to work 
by the blood in larger form, comparatively 
speaking. 

The chemist takes one part sodium chloride 
and nine parts sugar of milk, and grinds these 



22 BIOCHEMISTRY 

quantities together in the triturating machine 
for three hours. The result is the first decimal 
potency of sodium chloride, or natrum mur., 

1 X. He takes one part of this 1 X and nine 
parts sugar of milk, and triturates these quan- 
tities together for three hours. The result is the 
second decimal potency of sodium chloride, or 
natrum mur., 2 X. He takes one part of this 

2 X and nine parts sugar of milk, and tritur- 
ates them for three hours. The result is the 
third decimal potency of sodium chloride, or 
natrum mur., 3 X. And so on to 200 X. This 
is how the Schuessler Tissue Remedies are 
prepared by conscentious manufacturing chem- 
ists. You see that this process could hardly 
be trusted in the hands of a layman. You see 
how infinitely minute the mineral particles 
must become by the time you reach the 12th 
decimal potency, and you marvel that such 
microscopically small particles can be used as 
remedies at all for such objective realities as 
inflammations, pains, fevers, catarrhs, absces- 
ses, etc., etc. But, remembering that you are 
dealing with the microscopical contents of 
microscopical cells of the human body, it must 
be evident to you that the only logical form in 
which such particles can be introduced to the 
blood for its use in cell-building or repairing 
is this very microscopical form in which these 
particles are found to exist in the blood and 
tissue cells in health. You are not dealing 
here with albumens, carbo-hydrates or fats of 
food, but with the mineral ingredients of the 
cells of the body. Biochemistry shows that 
these mineral ingredients are the medicines of 



BIOCHEMISTRY 23 

the body in the sense that they are, when sup- 
ported hy the right quantity and quality of 
air, food, and water, the regulators of the 
body. 

We have said that Biochemistry is not com- 
plete, and leaves much work yet to be done 
by later investigators. It is incomplete in the 
sense that it offers no cure of such intractable 
disorders as locomotor ataxia, cancer and 
sclerosis, though a case might be made out 
for its efficacy in the last-named. But, in the 
sense that Biochemistry supersedes and takes 
the place of all known systems of medicine it 
is a complete and perfect system. You are ad- 
vised not to attempt to add to it, or improve 
upon it. If you should correspond with any 
of the manufacturing chemists . mentioned 
above they will certainly include with their 
correspondence leaflets of an appealing nature 
setting forth the merits of other preparations 
of their manufacture. If you write them for 
advice they will tell you that while the 
Schuessler Tissue Remedies undoubtedly have 
merit they must not be regarded as at all a 
complete system of medicine, as Homeopathy 
may be justly regarded to be; etc., etc. You 
are advised here and now to remember that 
these firms draw the bulk of their business 
from the manufacture of homeopathic rem- 
edies and they are therefore in no position to 
offer you disinterested advice on the subject 
of the completeness of Schuessler's Biochem- 
istry. You are advised to procure Schuess- 
ler's book on Biochemistry from any one of 
these firms, and not to be put off from this 



24 BIOCHEMISTRY 

demand by the offer to furnish you with any- 
body else's Practice of Biochemistry. Schuess- 
ler's book leaves much to be desired. It does 
not cover the subject in sufficient detail, but 
at least it is Schuessler himself speaking and 
no other. It is not an enthusiastic homeo- 
path anxious to prove to you that a homeo- 
pathic physician of today is a much better in- 
formed man than Schuessler ever was, and 
that whatever of good there is in Biochemistry 
is due to Homeopathy and to Schuessler's 
homeopathic training. Don't you believe a 
word of it. Follow Schuessler, and don't al- 
low yourself to be sidetracked in this matter. 



CHAPTER IV 

THE MARVEL OF HUMAN CHEMISTRY 

Your first question, of course, is — "If these 
mineral particles are responsible for human 
growth and govern the functions of the or- 
gans, they must be present in milk, since the 
infant thrives on milk alone?" Exactly. Milk 
is a perfect food for the young of the species, 
containing soda, potash, lime, magnesia, iron, 
and traces of silica and fluorine. Plants, of 
course, contain these mineral elements, and 
the growing man gets his supply from his 
food. They are the incombustible part of the 
human body. If you burned a body with fire, 
consuming it to ashes, the ash would disclose 
the presence of these mineral elements, re- 
solved again into their original form, separated 
from the acid combinations in which they ap- 
pear in life in human blood and tissue, in- 
destructible but not permanent of form, ready 
to continue their activity when acted upon 
again by earth and air, the iron, for example, 
combining with the oxygen of the air to form 
rust, and finally to be caught up into the at- 
mosphere as oxide of iron particles, to be 
carried elsewhere by the winds. We get these 
mineral salts from meats, vegetables, eggs, 
grains, milk, and in a less degree from water. 
Our food consists of nitrates or albumens, 
carbo-hydrates, or starches and sugars, and 
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26 BIOCHEMISTRY 

fats. These build the blood, bone, nerve, brain, 
sinew, muscle, etc., of the body, and provide 
us with animal heat and animal energy, when 
acted upon by the digestive fluids and by the 
oxygen of the air we breathe. The body itself 
is a chemist of the highest skill. Sulphur, for 
instance, is produced as sulphuric acid in the 
body by the action of oxygen acting upon al- 
bumen, which would instantly destroy the tis- 
sues if the sulphuric acid did not at once com- 
bine with the soda and potash particles of the 
blood to form the sulphates. 

Your second question, just as inevitably as 
the first, will be : "Suppose I take into my 
system some of this mineral matter, say, calc. 
phos., 6X, for teeth that are not making good 
bone, how is it possible that this minute 
amount of mineral can reach the goal? Why 
is it not destroyed, or at least changed by the 
acids and alkalies it meets in its journey, and 
how does it know where to go and what to 
do?" Very natural query and very natural 
doubt. So natural that it furnishes the reason 
why Biochemistry is not accepted as the only 
science of medicine worthy of the name today. 
Because it is hard to believe that these mole- 
cules of mineral matter will not be lost in the 
blood-stream or changed in their identity. We 
cannot explain how they reach their goal be- 
cause we cannot explain the mystery of life. 
But we can point to the construction of the 
teeth, for example, as proof that the stomach 
of the infant receives lime particles, fluorine 
particles and phosphate of potash particles, be- 
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BIOCHEMISTRY 27 

matter, out of which life constructs the bone 
and nerve matter of which the teeth are built. 
How life does this amazing thing we do not 
know. We know that it is done. If the milk, 
for instance, contains no trace of fluorine, 
the chemist of the body will be unable to 
make the needed combination of fluoride of 
lime which is found in the enamel of the 
teeth. The milk must contain lime also to 
form the combination of phosphate of lime 
which is found in the bony substance of the 
teeth, and if there is a deficiency of the mate- 
rials which furnish phosphoric acid, and a lack 
of potash, the nerve-cells cannot be built. We 
do not know the name of this chemist of the 
body, nor how the wonders are performed. 
We see in the fact of the building of our own 
bodies that the chemist of the body knows 
how to do the work. We do not know who 
he is, what he is, or how he does his work. 
Some call him God ; some call him Divine 
Mind ; some call him Vis Medicatrix Naturae. 
We call him here the chemist of the body be- 
cause it is the body we are speaking of. He 
is a Master-Chemist, and if we knew how he 
does his work we should grasp the secret of 
what life is, and we could make living and 
thinking machines, as this chemist makes 
plants and animals to live. We cannot do that 
— yet. 

We have one criticism of our own to ofTer 
on Schuessler's Biochemistry, and this is a 
very good place to state it. The Master says 
that when any one of these cell-salts is taken 
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will find their way rapidly and directly into the 
blood by way of the lining of the mouth and 
throat, penetrating the interstices between the 
cells of which the connective tissue is com- 
posed, and so entering the blood-stream with- 
out taking the long journey by way of the 
stomach. It is open to question whether the 
cell-salts do indeed act in this direct way. It 
is doubtful if they pass through the lining 
membranes into the blood. It is much more 
likely that they take the usual course into the 
stomach as the baby's milk takes its course 
into the stomach, whence it is acted upon by 
the chemistry of the body, oxygenated, split 
up, combined, and distributed to the blood 
arteries and capillaries. The cell-salts, intro- 
duced into the body in their proper combina- 
tions of phosphates, chlorides, or sulphates, 
can be instantly put to work by the chemist 
of the body and sent to the relief of the cells 
requiring them, whether they descend into the 
stomach or penetrate the connective tissue. 
This criticism in no way affects the question 
of the activity of the cell-salts, and is not ma- 
terial to a discussion of the efficacy of the 
system of Biochemistry. It is a question, how- 
ever, that is very likely to be asked you by 
any well-informed physician who is skeptical 
regarding the value of the Schuessler method, 
and he may go to the length of informing you 
that it is impossible for the cell-salts to act in 
the direct manner indicated. Your answer to 
his objection therefore is that you are per- 
fectly satisfied to have the cell-salts travel the 
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that they get to their destination eventually, 
and are put to work. 

The Tissue Remedies of Schuessler are 
tasteless except for the slight sweetness of the 
sugar of milk containing them. The easiest 
way of taking them is in their tablet form, 
avoiding the powdered form. The right 
potency for the silica, calc. fluor., and ferrum 
phos., is, as you have been told, the 12X. 
The right potency for the three potash salts, 
the three soda salts, the magnesia and the 
phosphate of iime is the 6X. From two to 
four of the little tablets is a dose. They should 
be placed under the tongue and forgotten. 
They will disappear rapidly. In cases of pain 
or severe disorder the dose may be repeated 
every half-hour until the pain ceases or im- 
provement is manifest : then every hour, and 
finally every three hours. Excess will do no 
harm. You could take half a pound of the 
tablets at one time if inclined to waste your 
money, but the result is waste. The excess 
is merely unused by the blood and is carried 
into the intestines, with other waste of the 
body. The value of the salts is best shown by 
the small dose frequently repeated. Why 
waste good cell-building material? These tab- 
lets cost at present about $2.50 per lb., and a 
full supply of 1 lb. of each of the eleven could 
probably be bought for $25.00. This would 
last you easily for ten years, probably longer. 
We do not advise you, however, to lay in any 
such supply. The salts do not deteriorate, but 
if you have them on hand you are likely to 
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30 BIOCHEMISTRY 

half-thought-out experiments on yourself or 
your friends with them, and you will be dis- 
appointed in the results, blaming the cell-salts 
for your own mistake. If you are using a cer- 
tain salt to produce -a constitutional change in 
your body, use the one salt indicated, and do 
not think you know anything about results 
until you have used half a pound of this salt, 
which will take at least six months of your 
time. So slowly does the body of man read- 
just itself at its basis of life, the cell-structure. 



CHAPTER V 
DR. BOERICKE'S DIGEST OF BIOCHEMISTRY 

Barring the fact that Dr. Boericke writes of 
Schuessler's Biochemistry as consisting of 
TWELVE Tissue Remedies, instead of the 
rightful ELEVEN, there is no fault to be 
found with the following text of a little pam- 
phlet put out by Halsey Bros., of Chicago : 

"To Dr. Schuessler of Oldenburg, Germany, 
is due the credit and honor of having origi- 
nated and introduced the system of medical 
practice now known as Biochemistry. Bio- 
chemistry consists in the successful treatment 
of all physiological disturbances, or diseases, 
by the administration of one or more of 
twelve properly prepared mineral remedies 
which he aptly terms 'cell salts.' The hu- 
man body is composed of cells. There are 
blood cells, nerve cells, bone cells, cartilage 
cells, etc., etc. Chemical analysis shows 
that the foundation and life of these cells, 
their integrity, structure, and vitality de- 
pend upon the proper proportion of certain 
inorganic salts, the principal of which are lime, 
soda, potash, iron and magnesia. According 
to Schuessler, — 'Any disturbance in the mole- 
cular motion of these cell salts in living tis- 
sues constitutes disease, which can be rectified 
and physiological equilibrium re-established by 
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the administration of these same mineral salts 
in small quantities.' 

"The body is made up of cells. Different 
kinds of cells build up the different tissues and 
organs of the body. The difference in the cells 
is largely determined by the kind of inorganic 
salts which enter into their composition. The 
cell salts are the tissue builders, and both the 
structure and vitality of the body depend upon 
their proper quantity and distribution in every 
cell. 

"The Tissue Remedies are these inorganic 
cell salts, prepared by trituration according to 
the homeopathic method and thereby rendered 
fine enough to be absorbed by the delicate 
cells wherever needed. 

"Health is the state of body when all the 
cells composing the various tissues are in a 
normal condition, and they are kept in this 
state when each of them receives the requisite 
quantity of the needful salt required for the 
upbuilding of the different tissues. Disease is 
an altered state of the cell, produced by some 
irregularity in the supply to the cells of one 
of the inorganic tissue salts. Imperfect cell 
action results, diseased tissues and organs fol- 
low, and all the phenomena of disease are de- 
veloped. Now, the cure consists in restoring 
the normal cell growth by furnishing a mini- 
mum dose of that inorganic substance whose 
molecular motion is disturbed, which disturb- 
ance caused the diseased action. To do this 
successfully it is necessary to know what salts 
are needed for the upbuilding of the different 
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BIOCHEMISTRY 33 

knowledge is derived from physiological chem- 
istry, and hence this treatment of disease by 
supplying the needed tissue salt is called the 
biochemical treatment. 

"In the following pages are given, under the 
different names of diseases, the respective tis- 
sue remedies that will prove curative, based 
upon the kind of tissue affected by the differ- 
ent diseases. Thus ; in catarrhal conditions, 
for instance, the remedies will be the same, 
whether the catarrh shows itself in the throat 
or nose or other organs, since it is the mucous 
membrane that is involved, and the mucous 
cells, therefore, call for the tissue remedy that 
is lacking. 

"By giving a tissue remedy in such a dose as 
can be assimilated by the growing cells the 
most wonderful and speedy restoration to 
healthy function is brought about in every case 
of curable disease. All diseases that are at all 
curable are so by means of the tissue remedies 
properly prepared to the needs of the organ- 
ism. This is very important, and on it depends 
the success of the treatment, just as much as 
on the correct selection of the particular cell 
salt. It seems reasonable that to make the y 
cell salts immediately useful they should be 
prepared in the same delicate form in which 
nature uses them, and that, if they are ab- 
sorbed by the microscopic corpuscles, they 
must themselves be finer than the corpuscles. 
We know that the mineral or cell salts are 
infinitesimally subdivided in the different kinds 
of food we take and are thus capable of as- 
similation by the cells. 

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34 BIOCHEMISTRY 

own special and particular cell salt; for in- 
stance, those entering into the formation of 
nerve cells are Magnesia, Potash, Soda and 
Iron ; of bone cells, Lime, Magnesia and Silica, 
etc., etc. 

"The inorganic salts found in the ashes of 
the body are all essential to the proper growth 
and development of every part of the body. 

"This method of treating all forms of dis- 
ease has been eminently successful, and can be 
confidently recommended. 

"Chief Uses of the Tissue Remedies. 

1. Calcarea Phos. — Phosphate of Lime. 
"The great remedy for the young and grow- 
ing. Indispensable during dentition and 
puberty. The tonic after acute diseases and 
for constitutional weakness, consumption, 
emaciation, bone diseases, and all ailments that 
prove obstinate. Slowly developing, weak 
children, chlorosis and difficulties during men- 
struation ; leucorrhoea and pains during men- 
ses, especially in young girls. The great rem- 
edy for transition periods of life — dentition, 
puberty, old age. 

2. Calcarea Fluorica — Fluoride of Lime. 

"A disturbance of the equilibrium of the 
molecules of this salt causes a dilation and re- 
laxed condition of elastic fibres, hence useful in 
varicose veins, hemorrhoids, and vascular 
tumors. Also in hard bony swellings. For 
piles, if they are apt to bleed, it may be ad- 
vantageously alternated with Ferrum Phos. 

3. Ferrum Phosphoricum — Phosphate of Iron. 
"All ailments arising from disturbed circu- 
lation, fevers, inflammations, congestions, thus 



BIOCHEMISTRY 35 

whenever heat, pain, redness, throbbing, 
quickened pulse are present. The fiist stage 
of all acute diseases, colds, pneumonia, pleur- 
isy, bronchitis, croup, diphtheria, diarrhoea, 
rheumatism, etc. It is the best and surest 
remedy for colds on the chest in children, 
whether simple catarrhal affections or going 
on to pneumonia. Nose-bleed always calls for 
it, or any hemorrhage from any orifice of the 
body. It is an excellent remedy for wetting 
of the bed in children. 

4. Kali Muriaticum — Chloride of Potash. 
"All ailments characterized by exudations, 

infiltrations, swellings, during the latter stages 
of acute diseases ; thus, after or in alternation 
with Ferrum Phos. All ailments accompanied 
by a white or gray coating of the tongue ; thick 
white discharge and expectorations, skin dis- 
eases, dysentery, etc. An excellent constitu- 
tional remedy for old chronic ailments, heredi- 
tary complaints and dyscrasias. 

5. Kali Phos. — Phosphate of Potash. 

"The great remedy for all forms of Nervous 
Debility. It is indicated in all diseases or 
symptoms arising from want of nerve power, 
brain exhaustion, neurasthenia, sleeplessness, 
want of energy, irritability, lack of confidence, 
gloomy forebodings, morbid ■ fears, hysteria, 
hypochondriasis, melancholia, etc. Nervous- 
ness, neuralgia and pains generally, especially 
in those who are run down. Headaches in 
delicate, excitable and nervous people. Para- 
lyzing pains in limbs. Also the remedy for 
very offensive discharges, offensive ulcers, 
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36 BIOCHEMISTRY 

curing their headaches, neuralgias, sleepless 
ness, despondencies and pains. 

6. Kali Sulphuricum — Sulphate of Potash. 

"A want of this salt causes yellow, slimy 
deposit on the tongue, slimy thin, decidedly 
yellow or greenish discharges, and peeling of 
the skin. Useful in any ailment where this 
condition prevails, especially if patient is worse 
towards evening, and in heated room. Catarrhs 
from any mucous membrane, — head, vagina, 
etc., when secretion is yellow and slimy. Fre- 
quently called for towards the end of a cold, 
when the discharge is profuse and comes up 
easy. 

7. Magnesia Phosphorica — Phosphate of Mag- 
nesia. 

"Chief remedy for nervous complaints of a 
spasmodic nature. All ailments with intense 
pains, darting, spasmodic, constricting. It is 
the great anti-spasmodic remedy, hence in con- 
vulsions, colic with flatulence, St. Vitus' 
Dance, spasmodic cough, cramps, neuralgia, 
palpitation, toothache, writer's cramp, etc. 
Chief remedy for baby's colic. 

8. Natrum Muriaticum — Chloride of Soda, or 
Common Salt. 

" Is found in all the tissues of the body. 
Useful for all pains, such as indigestion, etc., 
when accompanied by either flow of saliva or 
increased secretion of tears, vomiting of water 
or clear mucus. Catarrhs with frothy watery 
mucus, or blisters. In all catarrhs where the 
secretion is clear and transparent. Headache, 
costiveness, intermittent fever with catarrh 
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9. Natrum Phosphoricum — Phosphate of 
Soda. 

"Is the remedy for those diseases that arise 
from an acid condition of the system. It is 
especially suited to young children who have 
been fed with too much sugar and suffer from 
acidity. Dyspepsia, acid risings, sour vomiting, 
greenish, sour diarrhoea, tongue is coated with 
a yellow deposit, and thick like cream. When- 
ever this condition is present, no matter in what 
diseases, this remedy will prove curative. For 
worms, and complaints caused bv their pres- 
ence. 

10. Natrum Sulphuricum — Sulphate of Soda. 
"Acts on the cells of the liver and kidneys 

and regulates the amount of water in the tis- 
sues. Biliousness, headache with vomiting of 
bile, bitter taste, diarrhoea, gravel, sandy urine, 
intermittent fever, dropsy, diabetes, liver 
troubles, troubles arising from living in damp 
places. 

11. Silicea — Quartz. 

"Is useful in suppurations, promoting the 
formation of pus and maturing abscesses, dis- 
eases of the nervous system, paralytic symp- 
toms, spasms, rheumatic pain in limbs, etc." 

You will find Dr. Boericke's brief descrip- 
tion of the properties of the Tissue Remedies 
as given above, of great value to you when 
read in connection with Schuessler's descrip- 
tion which follows later. There are certain 
outstanding features of this system of Bio- 
chemistry which you should hold clearly in 
your mind from this time forward. The most 
significant of these is that Biochemistry does 



38 BIOCHEMISTRY 

not treat disease, but such symptoms, or signs, 
as nature throws out to inform the instructed 
biochemist what salts are required to remove 
this sign and cure the disease, if the condition 
has progressed to the point where it has been 
classified as a disease. This means that the 
symptoms or signs, are the call of the cells for 
aid. The name of a disease is of no conse- 
quence at all in Biochemistry, except as a 
guide to the licensed physician. It does not 
in any way alter the symptoms or signs which 
call for natrum sulph., for example, if the pa- 
tient is bilious, to be told that he has malarial 
fever, or if sugar is escaping from the body by 
way of the urine, to be told that he has dia- 
betes. The biochemist will use natrum sulph. 
in all affections of liver and kidneys, because 
that is the salt indicated by the symptoms or 
signs. 

Similarly, if you have a cold in the head with 
running of clear mucus, like water, this is the 
symptom or sign for natrum mur., and when- 
ever the sign is clear water or mucus, no mat- 
ter in what part of the body it appears, the rem- 
edy is always the same, natrum mur. If this 
cold of yours is distinguished by a white 
mucus, like thick milk, this is the sign iov 
kali, mur., and whether this flow of mucus is 
from the nostrils or from any part of the body, 
as leucorrhea, or catarrh of the .stomach, or 
white tongue, or pimples with white contents, 
kali. mur. will be the invariable remedy for 
this sign. To elaborate a little more on this 
point, if the disease is called Diphtheria, and 
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BIOCHEMISTRY 39 

remedy is kali, mur., because that is the salt 
indicated by the sign. If your cold shows a 
green mucus, or yellow and green as old ca- 
tarrhs often do, the salt indicated by this sign 
is natrum sulph. If this excretion or running 
of green mucus appears in any part of the 
body the indicated salt is always natrum sulph. 
You may have jaundice or intestinal catarrh 
or bilious fever or any one of a dozen dis- 
orders, called by their names, but if the sign 
is a green mucus or discharge, the salt called 
for is natrum sulph. 

In place of five hundred remedies for five 
hundred named and classified diseases you 
have in Biochemistry exactly eleven remedies, 
and possibly ten signs or symptoms or calls 
of the cells for certain indicated salts. The 
first and commonest sign, of course, is pain, 
the second is inflammation or fever, the third 
is constipation or congestion, the fourth is 
anemic or ill-nourished appearance, the fifth 
is exudation or catarrhs, the sixth is nervous 
disorders, the seventh is swellings, the eighth 
is bony growths, the ninth is suppurations, the 
tenth is decay, or loss of hair, atrophy of mus- 
cles, organs, etc. These symptoms of some- 
thing wrong with the human body are met 
with insofar as frequency is concerned about 
in the order given here. Each of these symp- 
toms is to be subdivided by the biochemist into 
its characteristics. For example there are 
many kinds of pain, there are many kinds of 
inflammations, there are many kinds of decay. 



CHAPTER VI 
PROMINENT PROPERTIES OF THE SALTS 

Calc. Phos. This salt has an affinity for 
albumen. Albumen is the chief constituent 
of the body-cells. Every cell contains albu- 
men. Therefore when the body shows a wast- 
ing condition of anemia it is either unable to 
use the albumen of the food in building, or it 
is losing albumen in some manner, by the kid- 
neys possibly. In any case we must use the 
salt that is albumen's affinity by chemical at- 
traction, namely calc. phos. This is not only 
the right salt for all disorders of bones, but 
the right salt for all conditions of mal-nutri- 
tion and wasting of flesh. 

Calc. Fluor. This is a specific in the case of 
teeth that are weak in enamel.. It is the salt 
for hard swellings. It cures those supposedly 
incurable cases of catarrh which are accom- 
panied by the strong fetor of decaying bone, 
or caries. 

Ferrum Phos. This is the first remedy for 
pain of any kind at its beginning. The first 
remedy for any inflammatory condition. 

Kali. Mur. This is the second remedy for 
all pains and inflammations when they have 
reached a stage where a white exudation, or 
white sign of any kind is evident. 

Kali. Phos. This is the great Nerve Salt. 
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Its effects are quite as noticeable in mental as 
in bodily improvement. It answers to the 
sign of bad odor, in any part of the body, or 
in connection with any function of the body. 
In bad breath, or where there is any odor of 
decay this is the salt indicated. Thus, in ty- 
phoid fever, which is distinguished by an un- 
pleasant odor of breath, perspiration and 
feces, kali phos. is called for. 

Kali. Sulph. This salt has the power of at- 
tracting oxygen and carrying oxygen to the 
tissue-cells. Its appearance in the blood is so 
minute in quantity, however, that its work of 
carrying oxygen to the cells is better per- 
formed by Ferrum Phos. 

Magnesia Phos. For those sharp, lightning- 
quick, spasmodic pains, this salt is indicated. 
It is the salt for the white nerve-fibres, as kali 
phos. is the salt for the grey nerve-matter. In 
all conditions of spasmodic, sudden, muscular 
motions, or choreic convulsions, this is the 
remedy. 

Natrum Mur. This salt has the property, 
of attracting water, and so building the cells 
with the right amount of moisture. It per- 
forms the office, among many others, of in- 
creasing the corpuscles of the blood by at- 
tracting water to the blood-cell, causing it to 
expand, and divide itself into two cells, which 
will be nourished by albumen and calc. phos. 
until they have attained their right growth. 
This salt alternates well with calc. phos. The 
sign for natrum mur. is always clear water or 
clear mucus in any part of the body. 

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edy. From childhood to old age the easiest 
trouble for the body to fall into is a condition 
of acidity which is shown forth by a variety of 
signs among which the pain of rheumatism is 
one of the most common. If it can be clearly 
established that the rheumatism is caused by 
an acid condition then natrum phos. will cure, 
even though the rheumatism is in its inflam- 
matory stage, and unbearably painful. 

Natrum Sulph. Most of these salts perform 
double duties, or duties of a two-fold nature. 
They are the builders, and they are also the 
caretakers or janitors, who see that the func- 
tions of the organs run smoothly. In the case 
of natrum sulph., it is the great liver and kid- 
ney salt, and it is used also by the blood to 
remove water from old cells that have lost 
their usefulness and which must be burned up 
by the oxygen of the blood, and cast out of 
the body to make room for new and vigorous 
cells to take their places. The three natrum 
salts, natrum mur., natrum phos., and natrum 
sulph., are all concerned with the water used 
by the cells. Natrum mur. attracts water and 
puts it to use in building. Natrum phos. 
changes acid secretions of watery consistency 
to alkalinity. Natrum sulph. withholds water 
from decaying cells, expediting their removal 
from the body. Natrum sulph. is the specific 
also in the common American disorder, con- 
stipation, by stimulating the liver to normal 
activity. 

Silicea. This is the great remedy for all pus 
conditions. It is also indicated wherever the 
nails show excessive brittleness. It was em- 



BIOCHEMISTRY 43 

ployed by Schuessler particularly in scroful- 
ous blood-disorders of long standing. 

When you intend to use the Tissue Rem- 
edies to rid yourself of a long-standing condi- 
tion of constipation, for example, let us see 
what salt you would select. If the tongue is 
white you would choose kali. mur. If you are 
a nervous subject, and there is much fetor 
with bad taste in the mouth generally, your 
choice would be the nerve salt, kali, phos., first 
of all, in the expectation that when the nervous 
system is attended to the functions would 
automatically improve. If there is at the same 
time a condition of acidity of the stomach, 
associating the constitution with heart-burn, 
dyspepsia, or indigestion, you would select 
natrum phos. If the condition of constipation 
is due to a dryness of the intestinal tract the 
remedy indicated is natrum mur. If there is 
muscular lack of peristaltic action of the in- 
testines, the innervation will respond best to 
ferrum phos. If there is much flatulence evi- 
dent the right salt for that is natrum sulph. 
Finally if the constipation is accompanied by 
ancient scrofulous conditions and suppurative 
diseases, silicea will answer more effectively 
than any other salt. Therefore, you will grasp 
the important truth that a sign or symptom is 
not the sole indication in itself of what salt is 
required. When you have mastered the simple 
rules governing the administration of the salts 
in the order of importance of the signs you 
will not rush hastily to the conclusion that 
you are qualified to treat the diseases and dis- 
orders of your friends and acquaintances. The 



44 BIOCHEMISTRY 

point of this book, indeed, the reason for its 
publication, is not that you shall forthwith 
launch out as a Biochemist for the treating 
of disease . The point of the book is that you, 
and none other, no matter v/hat his training 
and experience may be, are the best judge of 
your own physical being, and the least likely 
to make any mistake in interpreting its needs. 
It will be much easier for you correctly to 
diagnose your own case than for any other 
person to do so. You, for instance, can deter- 
mine the reason at the back of this condition 
of constipation in your own case far better 
than anyone else can do it. There is always 
a reason. It is your business to know why 
your body acts or fails to act in a certain 
way. The Tissue Remedies will set right for 
you any condition of your body that is ab- 
normal. You will learn very rapidly how to 
take care of your own health and how to put 
yourself right if you go wrong. Moreover, 
you will meet with many cases in your own 
family where it will be quite safe for you to 
apply the knowledge you have gained from a 
study of your own physical condition. But 
do not plunge into activity as a General Prac- 
titioner. The writer has studied Schuessler's 
Biochemistry for ten years, actively and in- 
tensively, and he is more conscious of the 
limitations of his knowledge of the chemistry 
of the human body than puffed up with his 
acquirement of knowledge. Go slow, and be 
thorough. Keep a cool head. You have your 
hand on the foundation of medical science here, 
but do not run to the extreme of supposing 



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that you have nothing to do but apply the 
teachings of this book the day after tomorrow. 
You have a lot of deliberate thinking to do 
after you have learned the essentials of Bio- 
chemistry before you can use it without mak- 
ing far too many mistakes. 

Notice that Nature carries nothing in the 
way of a laxative or cathartic or tonic in these 
eleven mineral salts. The reason for the ab- 
sence of a tonic is that this is a foolish word 
coined by medical practitioners, operating as 
a strengthening stimulant to the system. Un- 
derstand that nature has no stimulants be- 
cause she needs none. She has one tonic and 
one only, namely, the harmony of the cells, 
which is the condition of Health. This is her 
General Tonic. She has no special tonic. Nor 
has she a cathartic. If you have been in the 
habit of taking pills or tablets of aloes, rhu- 
barb, calomel, etc., etc., to produce a move- 
ment of the bowels, you have been taking a 
substance into your body which is so foreign 
to its activities that your body is anxious to 
get rid of it as speedily as possible. It does 
so. You have perhaps congratulated yourself 
on the result. Biochemistry will teach you to 
think straight on this matter. Your body is 
a marvel, Respect it. 



CHAPTER VII 

EXTRACTS FROM SCHUESSLER'S BIOCHEMIC 
THERAPY 

(Last Edition. Published by Boericke & Tafel, Phila- 
delphia.) 

"In my biochemical therapy only eleven 
remedies are used, these being such as are 
homogeneous with the inorganic substances 
contained in the blood and in the tissues of 
the human organism . . . These remedies 
must be given in small doses. . . . When- 
ever small doses are mentioned, the reader 
usually at once thinks of Homeopathy; my 
therapy, however, is not homeopathic, for it 
is not founded on the law of similarity, but on 
the physiologic-chemical processes which take 
place in the human organism. By my method 
of cure the disturbances occurring in the mo- 
tion of the molecules of the inorganic sub- 
stances in the human body are directly equal- 
ized by means of homogeneous substances, 
while Homeopathy attains its curative ends 
in an indirect way by means of heterogeneous 
substances ... A remedy selected ac- 
cording to the principle of similars is a homeo- 
pathic remedy, but a remedy which is homo- 
geneous with the mineral substances of the 
organism, and the use of which is founded on 
physiological chemistry, is a biochemical rem- 
edy. 

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"Blood consists of water, sugar, fat, albu- 
men, sodium chloride (common salt), potas- 
sium chloride, calcium fluoride, silicic acid 
(silicea), iron, lime, magnesia, soda and pot- 
ash. . . . Sodium salts predominate in 
the serum of the blood, potassium salts in the 
blood-corpuscles. Sugar, fat and the albumens 
are the so-called organic constituents of the 
blood ; water and the above mentioned salts 
are the inorganic parts. . . . Blood con- 
tains the material for all the various tissues, 
i. e., the cells of the body. This material 
reaches the tissues through the walls of the 
capillaries, and thus makes good the waste in 
the cells caused by the transformation of its 
substances. . . . The albumen destined 
to build up new cells is split up through the 
influence of oxygen, within the tissues. The 
products of such a division are the substances 
forming muscles, nerves, gelatine, mucus, 
keratin, and elastin. The substance which 
forms gelatine is intended for the connective 
tissue, for the bones, the cartilage and the 
ligaments; the substances forming mucus, 
muscles and nerves are destined for the mucus- 
cells, the muscle-cells, the nerve-cells, and the 
cells of the brain and the spinal marrow ; the 
keratin is intended for the hair, the nails and 
the cells of the epidermis and the epithelium ; 
the elastin for the elastic tissues. 

"When through means of food and drink, 
properly digested, the blood is compensated 
for the losses which it has suffered from sup- 
plying the nutritive material to the tissues, 
and when thus there is present in the tissues 



48 BIOCHEMISTRY 

the nutritive material in the requisite quan- 
tity and in the right place, and when there is 
no disturbance in the motion of the molecules, 
then the building of new cells and the destruc- 
tion of the old cells as well as the elimination 
of waste products proceeds normally, and the 
man is in a state of health. 

"When a pathogenic irritation touches the 
cell, its function is thereby at first increased, 
because it endeavors to repel this irritation. 
But when, in consequence of this activity, it 
loses a part of its mineral materials for carry- 
ing on its functions, then it undergoes a patho- 
genic change. Virchow says : 'The essence of 
disease is the cell changed pathogenetically.' 

"The cells which have undergone patho- 
genic changes, i. e., the cells in which there is 
a deficiency in one of their mineral constitu- 
ents, need a compensation by means of a 
homogeneous mineral substance. Such a com- 
pensation may be made spontaneously, i. e., 
through the curative effort of nature, whereby 
the requisite substances enter the cells from 
their interstices. But if the spontaneous cure 
is delayed, therapeutic aid becomes necessary. 
For this purpose the required mineral sub- 
stances are given in a molecular form. The 
molecules enter through the epithelium of the 
cavity of the mouth and throat into the blood 
and diffuse themselves in very direction. 

"The biochemical remedies are used in min- 
imal doses. . . . Nature operates only by 
means of atoms and by means of groups of 
atoms or molecules. The growth of animals 
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or groups of atoms to the molecular masses 
already collected. 

"In healthy men, animals and plants the 
salts are present in dilutions corresponding to 
about the 3rd, 4th and 5th decimal medicinal 
dilutions. . . . In 1000 grammes of blood- 
cells we find contained the following quan- 
tities of inorganic matter : 

Iron 0.998 

Potassium Sulphate 0.132 

Potassium Phosphate 2,343 

Potassium Chloride 3.079 

Sodium Phosphate 0.633 

Soda 0.344 

Calcium Phosphate 0.094 

Magnesium Phosphate 0.060 

"In 1,000 grammes of the intercellular fluid 
(plasma) we find the following quantities of 
inorganic matter: 

Potassium Sulphate 0.281 

Potassium Chloride 0.359 

Sodium Chloride 5.545 . 

Sodium Phosphate 0.271 

Soda 1.532 

Calcium Phosphate 0.298 

Magnesium Phosphate 0.218 

"Besides these, the intercellular fluid con- 
tains Glauber's salt in minute quantities, with 
fluorine and silicea. 

"One litre (1,000 grammes) of milk con- 
tains of inorganic matter the following quan- 
tities: 



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Potassa 0.78 

Soda 0.23 

Lime 0.33 

Magnesia 0.06 

Iron 0.004 

Phosphoric Acid 0.47 

Chlorine 0.44 

Milk also contains traces of fluorine and silicea. 
A litre of milk, or 1,000 grammes, or 15,443 
grains, is the average quantity consumed daily 
by a suckling child weighing about 6 kilo- 
grammes. 

"The amount of mineral substance con- 
tained in one cell is infinitesimal. By weigh- 
ing, measuring, and calculating, the physiolo- 
gian, C. Schmidt, has computed that one blood- 
cell contains about the one-billionth part of a 
gramme of Potassium Chloride. 

"In my practice I generally use the 6th 
decimal trituration. In acute cases take every 
hour or every two hours a quantity of the 
trituration as large as a pea, in chronic cases 
take as much, three or four times a day. 
Ferrum Phos., Silicea and Calc. Fluor. I us- 
ually give in the 12th trituration. ... A 
milligramme of substance is calculated to con- 
tain an average of 16 trillions of molecules, the 
6th decimal trituration should therefore con- 
tain about 16 billion molecules. This number 
is more than sufficient to equalize the disturb- 
ance in the molecular motions of the tissues. 

Iron. Iron and its salts possess the prop- 
erty of attracting oxygen. The iron contained 
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BIOCHEMISTRY 51 

oxygen, thereby supplying with it all the tis- 
sues of the organism. . . . Iron will cure 
1. The first stage of all inflammations. 2. 
Pains and Hemorrhages, when caused by hy- 
peremia. 3. Flesh wounds, contusions, 
sprains, etc., as it removes the hyperemia. 

Phosphate of Magnesia ... is con- 
tained in the blood-corpuscles, in the muscles, 
in the brain, in the spinal marrow, in the 
nerves, in the bones and the teeth. 
When the motion of its molecules in the nerves 
is disturbed, there arise pains, also cramps 
and paralysis. . . . They are ameliorated 
by warmth and by pressure, aggravated by a 
light touch. ... It will also cure spasms 
of various kinds ; spasms of the glottis, 
whooping cough, lock-jaw, cramps of the mus- 
cles of the calves, hiccough, tetanus, St. Vitus 
dance. 

Calcium Phosphate ... is found in all 
cells ; it is most abundant in the osseous cells. 
It plays a most important part in the forma- 
tion of new cells. It therefore serves as a rem- 
edy in anemic states, and for the restoration 
of tissues after acute diseases. 

Potassium Phosphate ... is contained 
in the cells of the brain, the nerves, the mus- 
cles and the blood (the blood corpuscles), as 
also in the plasma (serum) of the blood and 
in the other intercellular fluids. A disturb- 
ance in the motions of its molecules produces : 
1. In the domain of the cells of thought: 
despondency, anxiety, fearfulness, an inclina- 
tion to weep, homesickness, suspiciousness, 
agoraphobia, weakness of the memory and 



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similar ill humor. 2. In the vasomotory 
nerves : at first a small and frequent pulse, 
later on it is retarded. 3. In the sensory 
nerves : pains with sensation of paralysis. 4. 
In the motory nerves : weakness of the mus- 
cles and nerves, even to paralysis. 5. In the 
trophic fibres of the Nervus sympathicus: re- 
tardation of nutrition even to a total cessation 
thereof in a limited cellular area, and thence 
a softening and decay of the affected cells. All 
changes in the state of health have the charac- 
teristic of depression. 

Potassium Chloride ... is contained in 
almost all the cells, and is chemically related 
to fibrin. It will dissolve white or grayish- 
white secretions of the mucous membranes 
and plastic exudations. It is, therefore, the 
remedy for catarrhs when the secretion has 
the form described above ; it is also the 
remedy for croupous and diphtheritic exuda- 
tions. 

Sodium Chloride . . . The water which 
is introduced into the digestive canal in drink- 
ing or with the food enters into the blood 
through the epithelial cells of the mucous 
membrane by means of the common salt con- 
tained in these cells and in the blood, for salt 
has the well-known property of attracting 
water. Water is intended to moisten all the 
tissues, i. e., cells. Every cell contains soda. 
The nascent chlorine which is split ofT from 
the sodium chloride of the intercellular fluid 
combines with this soda. The sodium chloride 
arising by this combination attracts water. 
By this means the cell is enlarged and di- 
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as to form additional cells. . . . There may 
be simultaneously though in places distant 
from one another, diminished or increased se- 
cretions in consequence of the disturbance in 
the function of the molecules of common salt: 
e. g., there may be catarrh of the stomach with 
vomiting of water or of mucous, and at the 
same time constipation from a diminished se- 
cretion of mucus in the colon. 

Sodium Phosphate ... is contained in 
the blood-corpuscles, in the cells of the mus- 
cles, of the nerves and of the brain, as well 
as in the intercellular fluids. Through the 
presence of Natrum Phos., lactic acid is de- 
composed into carbonic acid and water. . . . 
Sodium phosphate is the remedy for those dis- 
eases which are caused by an excess of lactic 
acid. . . . Uric acid is dissolved in the blood 
by two factors ; the warmth of the blood and 
Sodium phosphate. If uric acid is deposited 
from its solution in the joints or near them, 
owing to a deficiency of Sodium phosphate, or 
when it combines with the base of Carbonate 
of soda into urate of soda which is insoluble, 
then there arises podagra or acute arthritic 
rheumatism. 

Calcium Fluoride ... is found in the sur- 
face of the bones, in the enamel of the teeth, 
in the elastic fibres, and in the cells of the 
epidermis. A disturbance in the motion of its 
molecules with a consequent loss thereof is 
followed by: 1. A hard, lumpy exudation on 
the surface of a bone. 2. A relaxation of 
elastic fibres ; thence an enlargement of the 
vessels, hemorrhoidal knots. 3. The keratin, 



54 BIOCHEMISTRY 

or horny substance contained in the epidermis, 
the hair and the nails, exudes from the cells of 
the epidermis. The exudate dries up at once 
and becomes a crust, firmly adhering to the 
skin ; it thus appears, e. g., on the palms. When 
the hand thus affected is used, chaps and tears 
in the crusts are formed. 

Silicea . . . is a constituent of the cells of 
the connective tissue, of the epidermis, the hair 
and the nails. If a suppurative center is formed 
either in the connective tissue or in a portion 
of the skin, Silicea may be used. After the 
functional ability of the cells of the connective 
tissue, which had been impaired by the pres- 
sure of the pus, has been restored to its in- 
tegrity through a supply of molecules of Sili- 
cea, these cells are thereby enabled to throw 
off inimical substances (the pus). In conse- 
quence, the pus is either absorbed by the lym- 
phatics or it is cast out. 

Sodium Sulphate. The action of the 
Sodium sulphate is contrary to that of the 
Sodium chloride. Both, indeed, have the fac- 
ulty of attracting water; the Sodium chloride 
attracts the water destined to be put to use in 
the organism, but the Sodium sulphate attracts 
the water formed during the retrogressive 
metamorphosis of the cells, and secures its 
elimination from the organism. The Sodium 
chloride causes the splitting up of the cells 
necessary for their multiplication ; the Sodium 
sulphate withdraws water from the superan- 
nuated leucocytes and thus causes their des- 
truction. Sodium sulphate cures chills and 
fever, bilious fever, influenza, diabetes, bilioufc 



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vomiting, bilious diarrhoea, oedema, . . . ca- 
tarrhs with yellowish-green or green secre- 
tions, etc. 

Potassium Sulphate ... in reciprocal 
action with iron effects the transfer of the 
inhaled oxygen to all the cells, and is con- 
tained in all the cells containing iron. Where 
there is a deficiency as to Potassium sulphate, 
according to the locality and extent of the de- 
ficiency, the following symptoms may arise : 
a sensation of heaviness and weariness, ver- 
tigo, chilliness, palpitation of the heart, anx- 
iety, sadness, toothache, headache and pains 
in the limbs. . . . There ensues a desqua- 
mation of cells of the epidermis and the epi- 
thelium, which have been loosened from their 
connection because they were not sufficiently 
provided with oxygen. The scaling off of these 
epithelial cells is followed by catarrhs with a 
secretion of yellow mucus. ... It also cures 
laryngeal catarrh, and catarrhs of the bron- 
chia, of the conjunctiva, of the mucous mem- 
brane of the nostrils, etc., where the secretion 
has the above mentioned characteristics; also 
a catarrh of the stomach, when the tongue has 
a yellowish mucous coating; also a catarrh of 
the middle ear and renal catarrh. 



CHAPTER VIII. 
REVIEW OF SCHUESSLER'S PRACTICE 

It would seem then that certain of these 
mineral salts have their special affinities 
among organic products. Let us trace the 
connection briefly: 

Calc. Phos. attracts albumen. Albumen of 
food is the chief nourisher of the body, and 
chief cell-builder. Whenever therefore there 
is an exudation of albumen from any part of 
the body, or whenever there is a condition .of 
ill-nourishment of the body present, there is a 
loss of calc. phos. in the body, which must be 
supplied. 

Kali. Mur. attracts fibrin. A white exuda- 
tion of a fibrinous nature calls for kali. mur. 
to check the loss. It has also been called the 
saliva salt because without kali. mur. it would 
be impossible for the Chemist of the Body to 
manufacture saliva. Kali, mur., therefore, is 
necessary for the right mastication of food in 
the mouth. 

Natrum Mur. attracts water. A waste of 
water in any part of the body therefore means 
a loss of natrum mur. This may be a cold 
with clear running mucus, a vomiting of wat- 
ery fluids, a diarrhoea of a watery nature, blis- 
ters or pimples on the skin with clear, watery 
contents, etc., etc. Moreover, if the stomach 
does not form the proper amount of hydro- 
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chloric acid for digestive purposes, the call is 
for natrum mur. 

Natrum Phos. is the dissolver of albuminous 
concretions which show forth as swollen 
glands, etc., by splitting up the albuminous 
matter into albumen, carbonic acid, and water. 
The commonest symptom of the accumulation 
of lactic acid in the lymphatic glands is this 
swelling of the glands, sometimes painless, 
sometimes accompanied by tenderness of the 
parts. The onset of an influenza often shows 
itself in this way. The acid condition which 
causes the swelling is met by natrum phos. 

Natrum Sulph. is attracted to water in the 
opposite process of natrum mur., that is to 
say, it withdraws water from the cells that 
have passed their apex of right usefulness, and 
therefore it helps to quicken the body's cleans- 
ing processes. In this work of speeding up 
the functions of the organs it works especially 
upon the liver and kidneys, which are the 
natural purifiers of the blood. The two sul- 
phates, natrum sulph. and kali sulph. have 
also important work to do in the intestines, 
where sulphur, in the form of these sulphates, 
makes its home in the body. Any medicine 
used by allopaths, as for example, iron, which 
in its raw state combines with sulphur and 
also with sulphates, robs the intestinal tract 
of their valuable sulphates, and therefore not 
only upsets the stomach but deranges the nor- 
mal action of the intestinal tract, producing 
congestions and constipations. Iron is a fa- 
vorite remedy of the allopaths in combating 
chlorosis in the young. It is one of the most 



58 BIOCHEMISTRY 

useless remedies and one of the most danger- 
ous substances employed by this blundering 
school of medicine. The proof of the blunder- 
ing is shown in the fact that no physician is. 
satisfied with the preparations of iron that are 
in use today because of their bad effects upon 
the digestion. Yet they continue to prescribe 
iron as a tonic. Schuessler shows that in place 
of iron natrum mur. and calc. phos. are the nat- 
ural remedies for this condition of chlorosis. 
Ferrum Phos. attracts oxygen. When you 
understand that the oxygen of the air you 
breathe is the only fuel that nature uses in 
body-building, acting as a fire upon the food 
you eat, you understand the function of iron 
in the system. Iron is not a tonic in itself. 
The body carries it in one form, and in one 
form only, namely, the phosphate of iron. In 
its microscopical form this phosphate of iron 
becomes a part of the blood-corpuscles, color- 
ing them red, and enters every tissue of the 
body, giving tone particularly to the muscle- 
cells. The body uses iron also to allay inflam- 
mations and to cure pains that are accom- 
panied by flushings of the face, and symptoms 
of heat. 

Kali. Phos. is not attracted to any organic 
material in particular, but functions as the 
chief builder of the nerve and brain cells. It is 
the nerve-tonic salt because its activities lie 
chiefly in control of the functioning of the 
Sympathetic Nervous System, or Nervus Sym- 
pathies. When the nervous system is in 
order the whole man is in a fair way of bejng 
in order, or in health. When any part of the 



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nervous system is out of order, such disorder 
makes itself apparent in a number of painful 
disturbances of function, which are named as 
diseases of a nervous origin. Kali. Phos. is 
therefore the mental salt, governing the abil- 
ity of the brain to function smoothly in all its 
mental processes. Keeping in mind the sig- 
nificant fact that all healthy things are sweet- 
tempered it is clear that the field for kali. phos. 
is wide. Any continuous manifestation of des- 
pondency, despair, or ill-temper, is evidence of 
lack of kali. phos. in the constant constitution 
of the blood. 

Kali. Sulph. is accredited by Schuessler with 
assisting iron in the work of carrying oxygen 
to the blood-cells and tissue-cells of the body. 
When there is scaling of the outer skin, the 
epidermis, the cause is to be found in a lack 
of oxygen to the cells affected, and this con- 
dition may be set right by use of kali, sulph. in 
its microscopical form. The writer lays no 
special emphasis on the use of this salt because 
in ten years of experimental work he has found 
little confirmation of this finding. In his own 
experience the marked results that have fol- 
lowed the use of natrum sulph., for instance, 
have been lacking in the case of kali, sulph. 
The carrying of oxygen seems to be fully at- 
tended to by the iron of the corpuscles. How- 
ever, the Master certainly had a far greater 
fund of experience to draw upon than the 
writer, and this doubt is put forward here only 
that you may not seize upon kali, sulph. as the 
remedy by means of which you will test the 
value of Biochemistry as a whole. We would 



60 BIOCHEMISTRY 

guard you against possible disappointment 
here, and therefore advise that you make your 
first trial with kali, phos., as the natural 
strengthener of the nervous system. 

Magnesia Phos. is the Spasm salt, acting 
upon the functions of the white nerve-cells. 
Schuessler used this salt particularly in cases 
of tuberculosis that were not too far advanced, 
but which had advanced beyond the point 
where natrum phos. could be used with advan- 
tage to dissolve the swellings of the glands. 
That is to say, he used mag. phos. when case- 
ous degeneration had set in, saying, on this 
point: "When the cells near these caseous 
masses are too weak to reject them, they are 
deficient in Magnesia phosphorica. By the 
therapeutical supply of minimal quantities of 
this salt these cells are restored to their in- 
tegrity and thus enabled gradually to reject 
these tubercular masses. The detritus of the 
rejected masses is then removed from the or- 
ganism by the usual excretive channels." 

Calc. Fluor, is the architect of the enamel of 
the teeth, and by means of its product, keratin, 
helps to manufacture the hair. In its curative 
work it dissolves hard, bony swellings in any 
part of the body, and corrects exudations of 
the horny substance. For example, corns and 
callouses are produced by the exudation of 
this horny matter through the epidermis. The 
fluoride of lime takes up these exudations, 
molecule by molecule, and causes their ab- 
sorption by the blood. 

Silicea is attracted to pus and all pus con- 
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symptom of a bodily disease silicea has a 
part to play in its removal. Schuessler speaks 
of its value in all chronic affections, and par- 
ticularly in chronic arthritic-rheumatic con- 
ditions, as it forms a soluble combination, or 
sodium silicate, with the soda of the urate 
of soda, causing the absorption of the de- 
posit and its removal from the body through 
the lymphatics. For the same reason he used 
silicea in renal gravel. He credits silicea also 
with the power of restoring the perspiration 
of the feet when this has been suppressed for 
any reason, which suppression may have re- 
sulted in such outward manifestations of 
disease as amblyopia, cataract, and para- 
lysis. 

You will be required, in your study of Bio- 
chemistry, to remember that the body is as 
quick to form habits as the mind. We speak 
of mental habits, but we seldom allude to 
bodily habits, such as the habit of constipa- 
tion, the habit of acidity of the stomach, the 
habit of vomiting, the habit of pain, etc., etc. 
In selecting the right salt therefore you will 
be called upon to distinguish between an 
acute or active disorder, and a habit. An un- 
derstanding of the difference will assist you 
in selecting the salt that is needed to rectify 
the condition. The body falls easily into bad 
habits. Fortunately they are easily corrected 
by the right remedies, the cell-salts, and re- 
spond to this correction in most cases rapidly. 
Cancer, however, which is the habit of cell- 
building out of place, does not so respond. 
Why, we do not know. 



CHAPTER IX. 
SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS 

The following guide for use of the Tissue 
Remedies is nothing more than a general 
summary, which special conditions might 
make entirely untrustworthy. Intelligent se- 
lection of the salt is determined only by your 
clear understanding of the essential processes 
of your own physical body, and this is by no 
means a difficult thing to arrive at. It re- 
quires only that you shall observe what your 
body is doing. This is particularly your busi- 
ness ; yours only. You need a copy of 
Schuessler's Biochemistry, from Boericke & 
Tafel, the publishers, and wherever you read 
in that copy that Kali. Chlor. is indicated, you 
will understand that Kali. Mur. is meant. 
Why the publishers should speak of Chlorate 
of Potash throughout the book when Chloride 
of Potash is meant is a mystery. Apart from 
that curious error the book is excellent ; well- 
printed, on good paper, and cloth-bound. The 
price is $1.50. It is a small book. You can 
begin to apply the information it contains 
within three days, but you will not exhaust 
the value of its contents in three years. 

Such of us as are convinced of the correct- 
ness of Biochemistry as the only system of 
medicine worthy of the name, must, sooner 
or later, form ourselves into an Association 
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of Biochemists, and since the purpose of this 
book is to take the business of caring for our 
own bodies out of the hands of doctors of 
medicine and restore it to the owners of those 
bodies, it is evident that the association 
should signify by use of the word "layman" 
that its members do not practice Biochem- 
istry as a profession in the sense of compet- 
ing with physicians of the regular schools 
of medicine in the treatment of disease. The 
Association of Lay Biochemists should be a 
self-protective organization, embracing in its 
membership all drugless healers who treat 
disease as a profession and livelihood, but 
composed for the most part of men and 
women who live by the principles of Bio- 
chemistry as employed for the benefit of 
themselves and their families only. It may 
be that the development of this idea will call 
for clinical instruction, lecture-courses, and 
graduating examinations, conferring the de- 
gree of A. L. B., Associate Lay Biochemist, 
but this is all in the future, and not at the 
present time advisable. The immediate thing 
before you is that you take up this work as a 
home study for your own immediate advan- 
tage. In pursuing this study you need for 
the first few years nothing but this book and 
Schuessler's Biochemistry, as said above. 
When you are firmly grounded in the essen- 
tials it will be advisable that you read all 
you can get your hands on in connection with 
the use of the Tissue Remedies by leading 
Homoeopaths, because you will then be in a 
position to distinguish between true Bio- 



64 BIOCHEMISTRY 

chemic practice and Homeopathic practice. 

The present price of the tablets, as stated 
is $2.50 per lb., but this is a war-time price. 
The normal cost is $1 per lb., and your first 
supply of the salts should consist of 1 lb. of 
Kali. Phos., unless there is something of a 
disease of an acute nature present, which you 
are very anxious to be rid of. Even in such 
case you cannot do better than put yourself 
on kali. phos. treatment for a couple of weeks 
before you take up any other salt. The effects 
of the salts are almost imperceptible in 
chronic conditions, but sometimes startlingly 
rapid in pains and acute disorders. Their 
greatest value, however, is in their power of 
rebuilding the body, removing abnormalities, 
and restoring the body to its normal condition 
of health. In accomplishing this purpose they 
break up habits of the body that have taken 
years to form. Naturally the process of cor- 
recting these habits is as slow and gradual 
as the process of forming them. Expect noth- 
ing marvelous in the way of instant results, 
therefore. Moreover, the salts, following the 
natural order, produce results in the mature 
and elderly much more slowly than in the 
case of the young. The right and easy way 
to take the salts is to keep a supply in a 
saucer or small receptacle upon the dresser, 
and take four tablets on rising in the morn- 
ing, and four on going to bed at night, carry- 
ing eight tablets with you to your office, 
loose in the pocket, to be taken, say, at eleven 
o'clock a. m., and at four o'clock in the after- 
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BIOCHEMISTRY 65 

child, two tablets is the right quantity. For 
an infant, one tablet is sufficient. Do not 
at any time, use water to dissolve the tablets. 
They dissolve rapidly in the mouth, and must 
be held in solution in the mouth as long as 
possible, being permitted to disappear of their 
own accord. They are not to be eaten like 
candy, and swallowed as soon as possible. 
You will use only the two decimal tritura- 
tions employed by Schuessler, the 6th and the 
12th, and you have been told when and why 
these triturations are used. 

Arterio-Sclerosis. A study of Schues- 
sler's book will throw light only indirectly 
upon the treatment of this deadly condition 
of old men. Death from hardening of the 
arteries is becoming increasingly common. In 
view of what he says regarding the property 
of calc. fluor. in dissolving hard, lumpy exu- 
dations on the surface of bone, and the ton- 
ing up of relaxed walls of veins, you. might 
conclude that calc. fluor. would have a salu- 
tary action in dissolving the mineral deposits 
that line the veins and arteries in age and 
cause the constriction of the circulation. You 
would think wrongly. The dissolving of these 
mineral deposits could be best accomplished 
by a six months' course of silicea, but you are 
once again warned that Biochemistry is not 
complete and all-sufficient. Nothing yet dis- 
covered by humanity is complete and all-suf- 
ficient. At the same time, in the case of 
hardening of the arteries, a careful scrutiny 
of his own condition from week to week will 
probably reveal to the sufferer that he is 



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making the best progress in the history of the 
case under a diet of fruits and vegetables, 
with a minimum of meats, supplemented by a 
course of such biochemical remedies as nat- 
rum sulph. and silicea, taken in alternate 
periods of one month of each. 

Tuberculosis. This dreadful scourge of 
the white races presents no insuperable ob- 
stacles to the biochemist. Tuberculous pa- 
tients are notoriously deficient in lime. The 
fever and loss of weight yield readily to Ferrum 
Phos., and Calc. Phos., particularly to the lat- 
ter salt, which on account of its affinity for 
albumen, is the body-savior in all wasting 
conditions. Fresh air, night and day, no 
physical exercise whatever, abundant food, 
taken with or without appetite, abundant 
milk, if good milk is procurable, otherwise 
abundant water, and a course of calc. phos., 
will cure any ordinary case of tuberculosis, 
to stay cured, if the patient will supplement 
this regimen by taking twice as long over 
his meals as other people, employing this ex- 
cess time in complete mastication of every 
mouthful of food, whether solid or liquid. The 
rule in this case is that no food should be 
swallowed which has not been brought by 
complete mastication into a liquid condition, 
and no food should be swallowed until the 
taste has disappeared by prolonged mastica- 
tion. These are the two fundamentals of the 
system of Fletcherism, or complete mastica- 
tion of food, which produced such astonish^ 
ing improvement in the physical condition of 
the founder of the system, Horace Fletcher, 



BIOCHEMISTRY 67 

and has done so much for the physical bet- 
terment of his thousands of followers scat- 
tered throughout the world. 

As a means of classifying disease, a knowl- 
edge of bacteriology is interesting. As a con- 
tribution to exact knowledge of the form of 
the micro-organisms producing certain con- 
ditions of disease bacteriology has been use- 
ful. As a guide to the production of anti- 
toxins for the cure of disease bacteriology has 
been of value in isolating the active germ. As 
an excuse for much fluent nonsense and bogus 
specifics bacteriology has a good deal to an- 
swer for. You may recall Koch's Tuberculin, 
"606," and other much-touted remedies that 
failed to give a good account of themselves. 
The biochemist is not impressed by bacteri- 
ological findings. His system of cure deals 
with the signs and symptoms that indicate a 
departure from the normal standard of health, 
and he is well-assured that to name a dis- 
ease correctly and to cure the disease are 
two very different things. He has nothing to 
do with the naming of the disease. His con- 
cern is the sign or symptom. He knows that 
the body in health can take care of any ba- 
cillus that has or has not yet been discovered, 
named ?.nd classified. The biochemist is not 
more impressed by anti-typhoid scrum than 
by MetchnikofFs exploded opinion that ben- 
evolent bacteria are resident in Bulgarian 
buttermilk. God help us, medical science 
has supplied us with absurdities enough ! 



CHAPTER X. 
THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE 

The chief value to the community in the 
Board of Health lies in its executive power 
of warning the public against epidemic dis- 
ease and contagion, and enforcing those sani- 
tary precautions which the public is too ig- 
norant or too careless to carry out of its own 
accord. The Board of Health is therefore a 
police power, and rightly so. Extending its 
functions in certain localities with great ad- 
vantage to the citizen it has inaugurated a 
system of inspection of the teeth of school- 
children, with compulsory conditions of 
treatment attached, that has been of the 
greatest benefit to the welfare of the young, 
and therefore of the country at large. Not 
in this century may we look for a general 
advance in public intelligence relating to 
hygiene and sanitation which will render the 
services of a Board of Health a sinecure. The 
health of a community is chiefly dependent 
upon the activities of its Board of Health, and 
too much praise can hardly be bestowed upon 
the efficiency of administration of its affairs 
throughout the country as a whole. 

This brings up the question of the present 

status of the doctor of medicine. Is it not 

a highly absurd thing that a citizen should 

blindly pay money out of his pocket to a 

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physician or druggist for the purchase of 
medicines which are meant to restore him to 
health? Apart from the point that the advice 
of one physician or one druggist is not the 
same thing at all as the advice of another 
physician or another druggist, is it not ridicu- 
lous that one individual in a community 
should make his livelihood out of the pains 
and sicknesses of another individual? Is it 
not clear that the Chinese system of paying 
an insurance on health by paying the doctor 
only as long as the citizen remains in health 
is the sounder principle of the two? Is it not 
asking too much of human nature that the 
physician or druggist should ALWAYS do his 
utmost to terminate as rapidly as possible the 
illness of the patient, and thereby deprive 
himself of a part of his income? It is a fool- 
ish and illogical way of buying relief from 
sickness, and works very unsatisfactorily. 
Clearly, while modern medicine exists at all, 
it should be a municipal office, administering 
its affairs, not as at present on the competi- 
tive basis of the individual reputation of this 
or that physician, paid by his patients, ac- 
cording to their means, according to his suc- 
cess, and according to the nature of the treat- 
ment required by the case, but upon the same 
basis as the present Boards of Health, ex- 
tending the personnel of its officers to fit the 
requirements of the community, and exercis- 
ing its knowledge, both medical and surgical, 
to the best of its ability, upon a salary charge- 
able to the community. This is common- 
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and surgery today. The tax-payer should be 
as sure of medical or surgical attention, if he 
needs it, as he is sure of water for household 
purposes, and for the same reason, because 
he pays the rates. It would be still a matter 
of option with the citizen whether he availed 
himself of this opportunity of free medical 
advice or treatment. Nothing in the present 
practice of medicine gives us hope to be- 
lieve that it will ever know anything more 
about the right treatment of disease than it 
knows today, because its students are 
grounded throughout their college terms in 
the immemorial errors of their dead and gone 
predecessors, and they are in no position to 
fly in the face of such teaching. They learn 
what the books teach them, right or wrong. 
They practice what they have learned. They 
must continue so to do, or starve. The radi- 
cal change in modern medicine will come 
about, if it ever comes, by pressure from 
without, pressure applied by the layman, who, 
having gradually absorbed the belief that his 
body is his own concern, and that it behooves 
him to acquire some accurate knowledge of 
its behavior, drifts so far away from the lure 
of drugs that the practitioner is faced with 
the alternative of altering the method of his 
system, or perishing for want of patients. It 
is probable that this enlightenment on the 
part of the public will force the adoption of 
some such municipal system of the practice 
of medicine as outlined above, affording a safe 
means of livelihood to the future practitioner. 
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the possible improvement in the practice of 
medicine, however, when we consider the 
splendid common-sense displayed in the ar- 
rangements of the modern public school with 
a view to compelling- the pupils to improve 
their physical condition by athletic exercises 
in the open air by use of a proper outdoor 
gymnasium equipment. This most wise and 
beneficent addition to the mental training of 
the class-room we owe to the activities of the 
Boards of Health. This is supplemented by 
written instruction in the fundamentals of 
health-building which is intended to familiar- 
ize every student with the things to be known 
about the right care of the body. Nothing 
of equal value to this advance in school- 
training has been shown since the abolish- 
ment of the cane as the only proper method 
of implanting knowledge in the youthful 
mind. Comparing modern educational meth- 
ods with ancient educational methods it does 
not seem too sanguine a hope that some day 
we shall note a similar advance in the prac- 
tice of medicine. 

If all the world were advocates of Schues- 
sler's Biochemistry there would be no need 
of Vaccination. We believe that the bio- 
chemist is independent of anti-toxins, and has 
no need of the vaccine virus to make him im- 
mune to the small-pox germ. But we have 
no doubt upon the point that vaccination is a 
preventive of small-pox, and in communities 
that know nothing of Biochemistry, vaccina- 
tion has stood for many years as a solid wall 
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72 BIOCHEMISTRY « 

standing on this point. We have small sym- 
pathy with anti-vaccinationists because of the 
fact that information upon the point of the 
efficacy of vaccination is easily procurable. 
The tables of mortality do not lie. The facts 
are before you. Vaccination, and no other 
thing, has practically wiped out small-pox. Do 
not, in your enthusiasm for Biochemistry, fal- 
sify the importance of a fact that seems to 
support the claims of any other system of 
medicine. Like most discoveries of value to 
the human race, vaccination was first brought 
to the attention of Europe by a layman. 
It was no product of the laboratory. Lady 
Mary Wortley Montagu, writing from Hol- 
land to a friend in England, something over 
sixty years ago, said : "The people here 
are not afraid of small-pox. They pro- 
tect themselves by scratching the arm with 
a needle-point dipped in the virus of a cow 
that has cow-pox. This gives them a slight 
attack of the disease, and they are then safe 
against an attack of small-pox." Following the 
public dissemination of this news, Dr. Jenner, 
among others of the profession, became active 
in support of the process, which has justified 
itself as a sound preventative of this dread 
disease in all countries since that day. 

We are not on the same safe ground, how- 
ever, when we consider the specific remedy 
of all schools of medicine in the case of that 
scourge of humanity named Syphilis. The 
specific drug employed is mercury. The action 
of mercury is fatal to the life of the germ 
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BIOCHEMISTRY 73 

tion procurable on the point of the dread 
after-effects of the remedy. Practically every 
case of locomotor ataxia has a history of 
syphilis. It has never been disproved that 
mercury causes the spinal lesions that are 
responsible for the ataxia. It is quite likely 
that the shocking physical consequences of 
syphilitic taint are more correctly the shock- 
ing physical consequences of the administra- 
tion of mercury and arsenic in an effort to 
cure the disease. The biochemist will avoid 
mercury in any form, and base his treatment 
of any disease upon the symptoms appearing, 
rather than upon the name of the disease. In 
favor of the biochemical method it should be 
said that Biochemistry does not alleviate a 
condition, but cures the disease. Moreover, it 
cures to stay cured, and carries no aftermath 
of new conditions of disease started by the 
effect of poisonous drugs. It should be self- 
evident that a drug which is known to be 
destructive to human tissue cannot be ad- 
ministered as a remedy in disease of that 
tissue, no matter what name the disease may 
bear. The homoeopaths as a school are so 
thoroughly frightened of this name, Syphilis, 
that they adopt the allopathic method of mer- 
cury in quantity for its cure. Biochemistry, 
on the other hand, is true to its principles and 
maintains that the inorganic salts are the 
means of curing all diseases that are curable 
by any method known. 



CHAPTER XL 

SUMMARIZED GUIDE TO USE OF SALTS 

Abscess, Boils, Carbuncles and Felons. 

Ferrum Phos., in first stages. 

Kali. Mur., in second stages before pus 

forms. 
Natrum Sulph. in old, chronic cases. 
Silicea, when pus forms. 
Acid Dyspepsia, Heartburn. 

Natrum Phos. 
Acne. 

Natrum Sulph., if liver is inactive. 
Silicea if pimples show pus. 
Ferrum Phos. at onset of disease. 
Ague. 

Natrum Sulph. 
Anemia and Chlorosis. 
Calc. Phos. 

Ferrum Phos. as supplementary remedy. 
Natrum Mur., if there is a habit of cold 
sores and water blisters. 
Asthma. 

Kali. Phos., if nervous asthma. 
Kali. Mur., in cardiac asthma, with pain- 
ful breathing. 
Calc. Phos., in the bronchial asthma of 

children. 
Silicea, if asthma is old habit, and ^consti- 
tutional. 

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Backache. 

Ferrum Phos., in hot pains over loins and 
kidneys, relieved by cold cloths. 

Kali. Phos., in stiff back relieved by gentle 
exercise. 

Calc. Phos., if backache is accompanied by. 
anemic condition. 
Barbers Itch. 

Magnesia Phos. 
Bones, Diseases of 

Calc. Phos., in all cases of defective bone 
development, delayed dentition in chil- 
dren, weakness of bones. 

Ferrum Phos., when redness, swelling and 
inflammation appear. 

Kali. Phos., if nervous weakness is promi- 
nent. 

Calc. Fluor., in Decay of bony tissue, car- 
ies, necrosis, bony growths. 
Brain-Fag. 

Kali. Phos. 
Bronchitis. 

Ferrum Phos., in first stages with inflam- 
mation. 

Calc. Phos., when wasting accompanies the 
condition, and when expectoration is al- 
buminous. 

Natrum Sulph., if bronchitis is asthmatic, 
aggravated by damp weather. 

Natrum Mur., in chronic bronchitis. 
Bunions. 

Kali. Mur. 
Burns. 

Kali. Mur., applied externally as a paste. 



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Catarrh. 

Ferrum Phos., in first stage. 

Calc. Fluor., in chronic catarrh with bad 
odor. 

Natrum Mur., if discharge is clear and thin, 
like water. 

Kali. Sulph., if discharge is thick and yel- 
low. 

Calc. Phos., if anemic condition is marked. 

Natrum Phos., when catarrh is accom- 
panied by gastric disorders. 

Natrum Sulph., if discharge is green or yel- 
low-green mucus. 

Silicea, in chronic catarrh, with pus-bear- 
ing pimples. 
Colic. 

Magnesia Phos. 
Constipation. 

Kali. Mur., if tongue is white. 

Kali. Phos., if stools are very offensive. 

Ferrum Phos., if due to muscular lack of 
power and inertia. 

Natrum Mur., if stools are dry and hard. 

Calc. Phos., for old people. 

Natrum Phos., especially in children. 

Natrum Sulph., in chronic constipation 
with much flatulence. 
Cough. 

Ferrum Phos., if sore and feverish, with 
pain. 

Kali. Mur., with white, stringy expectora- 
tion. 

Calc. Phos., in tuberculous cough. 

Natrum Mur., if sputa is salty, with watery 
expectoration. 



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Mag. Phos., if spasmodic and dry. Also in 

Whooping Cough. 
Natrum Sulph., if expectoration is green or 

yellow-green. 
Silicea, in smothering night-cough. 
Cramps. 

Magnesia Phos. 
Croup. 

Calc. Phos. 
Dentition. 

Calc. Phos., when children get teeth slowly, 
backward in walking, fontanelles are 
slow in closing. 
Silicea, in children of scrofulous tendency. 
Diabetes. 

Natrum Sulph. 
Diarrhoea. 

Ferrum Phos., if fever is present. 

Kali. Phos., when exhaustion accompanies 

and stools have carrion odor. 
Natrum Phos., in nursing children, with 

acidity. 
Mag. Phos., in much cramping pain, with 
colic. 
Diphtheria. 

Ferrum Phos., at onset of inflammation. 
Kali. Mur., when white membrane shows. 
Kali. Phos., if disease advances to gangrene. 
Dropsy. 

Natrum Sulph. 
Dysentery. 

Ferrum Phos. at onset to control fever. 
Kali. Phos., if delirium is present and evacu- 
ations have carrion odor. 
Mag. Phos., if much cramping. 



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Dysmenorrhoea (Painful Menstruation) 

Ferrum Phos., if face is red, flushed, with 
nausea and vomiting. 

Calc. Phos., when heavy pains accompany. 

Mag. Phos., in cramping, colicky pains. 

Kali. Phos., in pale, anemic cases, with great 
pain, menses pale. 
Earache. 

Ferrum Phos., if sharp inflammation from 
cold draft. 

Kali. Mur., in chronic catarrhal inflamma- 
tion. 

Natrum Sulph., when pain is aggravated by 
damp weather. 
Epilepsy. 

Kali. Mur. 

Ferrum Phos., when blood rushes to head, 
flushing the face. 

Natrum Phos., when caused by worms in 
children. 
Erysipelas. 

Ferrum Phos., at onset when inflammation 
and fever appear. 

Kali Mur., in second stage. 

Natrum Sulph., in soft, puffy inflammation. 
Fever. 

Ferrum Phos., the first remedy at onset of 
any fever. 

Kali. Phos., in fevers with marked fetor; 
specific in typhoid states. 

Natrum Phos., in gastric fevers with acid- 
ity. 

Natrum Sulph., in malarial chills and fever; 
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Glandular Swellings. 

Kali. Mur. 

Natrum Phos., if lactic acidity is suspected 
as cause. 
Goitre. 

Mag. Phos. 
Hay Fever. 

Mag. Phos. 
Hemorrhage. 

Ferrum Phos. 
Hemorrhoids. x 

Calc. Fluor. (Ferrum Phos. for first stage.) 
Headaches. 

Ferrum Phos., in subjects of quick pulse, 
hot heads. 

Kali. Mur., in sick headache. 

Kali. Phos., in nervous headache. 

Calc. Phos., /in children, hands and feet 
cold at the time. 

Natrum Sulph., in bilious headaches, with 
tendency to vomit. 
Heartburn. 

Natrum Phos. 
Hysteria. 

Kali. Phos. 
Impotence. 

Kali. Phos. 
Inflammation. 

Ferrum Phos., First Stage. 

Kali. Mur., Second Stage. 

Silicea, Third Stage. 
Influenza. 

Natrum Sulph., a specific in this dread dis- 
ease. No other remedy is required. Dose 
two tablets every fifteen minutes. 



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Intermittent Fever. 

Natrum Sulph. 
Jaundice. 

Natrum Sulph. 
Kidneys. 

Ferrum Phos., if tenderness and inflamma- 
tion are present. 

Kali. Mur., in difficult urination. 

Natrum Sulph., renal gravel. 
Leucorrhea. 

Calc. Phos., in anemic girls. 

Kali. Mur., in bland, white discharge, non- 
irritating. 

Kali. Phos., in scalding and acrid discharge, 
with great nervousness. 

Silicea, in pus-like, thick yellow discharge. 
Liver Complaints. 

Natrum Sulph. 
Measles. 

Ferrum Phos., in first stage. 

Kali. Mur., if cough is present. 
Neuralgia. 

Mag. Phos. 
Pleurisy. 

Ferrum Phos. 

Kali. Mur., in second stage. 
Pneumonia. 

Ferrum Phos. 

Kali. Mur., in second stage. 
Rheumatism. 

Ferrum Phos.. at onset. 

Natrum Phos. 
Scarlet Fever. 

Ferrum Phos. 

Kali. Mur., in second stage. 



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Sciatica. 

Kali. Phos. 
Styes. 

Silicea. 
Tonsillitis. 

Kali. Mur. 
Ulcers. 

Silicea. 

Kali. Phos., for the round ulcer of the 
stomach. 
Vertigo. 

Ferrum Phos. 

Kali. Phos., if from nervous derangement. 

Natrum Phos., if from gastric derangement. 

Xatrum Sulph., if from biliousness. 
Vomiting. 

Ferrum Phos., vomiting of food. 

Xatrum Sulph., of bile. 

Natrum Mur., of water. 

Ferrum Phos., of blood. 

Kali. Mur.. of white mucus. 

Natrum Phos.. of sour fluid, and in sea- 
sickness. 

Calc. Phos., vomiting in children during 
dentition. 
Worms. 

Natrum Phos. 
Wounds. 

Ferrum Phos. 



CHAPTER XII. 
CONCLUSION 

The "One-Best-Way" New Thought books 
are written with the purpose in view of pre- 
senting to the reader in compact form the one 
best way of doing what is to be done, 
whether, as in the first book of the series, the 
subject concerns the building of Will, or, as 
in the present book, whether it deals with the 
building of Health of Body and Mind. We 
feel the physical to be of such importance in 
the development of the mental and spiritual 
powers inherent in man, that our third book 
of the One-Best-Way series will also concern 
itself entirely with the well-being of the phy- 
sical body. 

The name of the third book of the One- 
Best-Way series of New Thought books will 
be "The New Thought System of Physical 
Culture and Beauty Culture," developing the 
physical body to its highest efficiency, adapted 
to the use of both sexes, of all ages between 
seven and seventy. This book will be pro- 
fusely illustrated by Miss Ethel Stahl, artist 
of New Thought, in pen and ink drawings. 
Size 100 pages, uniform in binding with this 
volume, price $1, postpaid to any part of the 
world. Written by the author of the present 
volume. Ready for mailing to purchasers on 
or before February 28, 1921. 
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The name of the fourth book of the One- 
Best-Way series of New Thought books will 
be "The New Thought System of Dietetics," 
giving very clear instruction upon the chem- 
istry of foods and the effects resulting from 
injudicious mixtures of antagonistic edibles. 
The bent of the book is strongly in the direc- 
tion of vegetarianism as offering the solution 
to many of the digestive and assimilative 
problems of today that baffle us. This will 
constitute the last of the books of this series 
devoted exclusively to the advantage of the 
physical body. The remaining books of the 
series will deal with the development of men- 
tal and spiritual powers. We do not feel that 
the student is in the best vein to receive in- 
struction upon the higher powers of the mind 
until the things of the body have been put 
upon the best possible foundation for his un- 
derstanding and acceptance. Written by the 
same hand as the preceding books of the 
series, this fourth book will be off the press 
and ready for mailing by the last day of March, 
1921. Uniform in size, binding and price with 
the preceding books of the series, but not illus- 
trated. 

Returning now to a consideration of the 
third book of the series, the System of Phy- 
sical Culture originated, developed and prac- 
ticed by the author, let us see wherein it dif- 
fers from the thousand and one systems al- 
ready on the market. In this day it is rash 
to speak of an original system of anything 
unless you are very sure that you are well 
within the facts in making the claim. It 



84 BIOCHEMISTRY 

may throw some light on the basic theory of 
right physical development which the book 
puts forth if we quote here a remark made 
some ten years ago to the author by Mr. 
Samuel Wall of Tacoma, Washington. The 
author had said in an offhand way to Mr. 
Wall, "Oh, that reminds me that I am work- 
ing out a new system of Physical Culture. 
It's a wonder. All the exercises are taken in 
bed." He was unprepared for Mr. Wall's 
huge roar of laughter, or for his comment, 
vociferated at the top of his lungs — "Yes. For 
God's sake, if a man must exercise, let it be 
in bed !" No doubt there is something droll 
in such an announcement, but the author had 
spent so much time in the development of this 
system that the humor of its method, if it 
ever existed for him, had long been forgotten 
in appreciation of the value of results. It 
would not be within the facts to say that the 
author had assiduously practiced this system 
from that far day to this, in its whole and 
complete form, but it would be quite true to 
say that he has never relinquished his interest 
in the practice of some daily detail of it, and 
considers his phenomenally good health as 
due in no small measure to this observ- 
ance. The outstanding feature of this Sys- 
tem which distinguishes it from any other 
similar system on earth is, of course, that the 
exercises are taken by the student recumbent 
upon his chaste couch, but the attractive 
thing about the System is that it never* palls 
upon the attention ; it never becomes a weari- 
ness and a pest ; it never loses its edge of 



BIOCHEMISTRY 85 

pleasure in performance. We consider this 
quality of perpetual attractiveness the most 
striking thing about it. 

On reaching middle life, the average man 
and woman look upon themselves as finished 
products. They may be satisfied, or dissatis- 
fied, probably the latter, but they do not con- 
sider the possibility of changing themselves 
to their liking. It is a curious trait in human 
nature, this determination to make the best 
of a bad job. They are dissatisfied with their 
appearance, or their circumstances, or their 
mental powers, but they settle down to such 
enjoyment of life as is possible to their 
scheme of living,, without a glimmer of under- 
standing that their faces, bodies, minds, and 
circumstances, are absolutely subject to their 
will. If they don't like their health they are 
told in this book how they can improve it. 
If they don't like their circumstances they 
have been told in the first book of this series 
how to change them. If they don't like the 
shape of their bodies, or the appearance of 
their faces, they will be told in this forthcom- 
ing System of Physical Culture how to alter 
them permanently to suit themselves. Al- 
though the book is written, as are all the 
books of this series, as if addressing an audi- 
ence of men, every line of the teaching here 
is as applicable to women as to men. The 
Physical Culture System more so, because it 
includes directions for altering the facial con- 
tours to which men are indifferent, but to 
which women are keenly alive. A man would 
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86 BIOCHEMISTRY 

on his face. It would seem a folly to him to 
try to improve his face. He is right to the ex- 
tent that his face is a matter of no conse- 
quence. But a woman's looks are of immense 
consequence to her, and again this is rightly 
so, because her charm is inseparably linked 
with her appearance. Age, and the marks of 
age, are not the tragedy to a man that they 
are to a woman. This being the state of the 
case we shall expect to find that women are 
employing the New Thought Physical Cul- 
ture System as an aid to beauty, to ward off 
the signs of approaching age, while men will 
use it chiefly to improve their physical vigor. 
It will achieve this double purpose in all 
cases, regardless of the end for which it is 
used, and regardless of the age of the person 
who uses it. 

While physical life endures in the body, 
there is motion. While there is motion the 
building process continues. A man of ninety 
can build character, memory and will if he 
will do the simple things required to build 
these mental qualities. You have been told 
how. A man of ninety can restore his physi- 
cal health by use of the Schuessler Tissue 
Remedies. You have been told how and why. 
A man of ninety can rebuild his physical body 
by the New Thought System of Physical Cul- 
ture, and, if he wishes to do so, he can take 
forty years of the marks of time off his face 
by the same means. It is for him to say 
whether the end is worth the trouble. The 
point is that all men, of all ages, in all lands, 
and in all the history of men that has come 



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to us for the past four thousand years, have 
believed that the appearance of age was a 
necessary condition of advancing years, and 
could not be altered. Our point is that it can 
be altered if you wish to alter it. No man has 
ever believed that it was in his power to alter 
it. Again, our point is that it is as entirely 
in his power to alter his appearance as it is 
in his power to improve his memory, and for 
exactly the same reason, namely, that man is 
architect of his own body because life is mo- 
tion, because the cell builds while life con- 
tinues, and because the employment of cer- 
tain simple motions stimulates the activity of 
the builder. This is a valuable thing to know, 
and odd only in that it is not known. The 
opportunity to put this knowledge to work 
for your advantage will be offered you. What 
use you make of the knowledge rests, as in 
every other case, with yourself. You may 
accept the author's positive assurance, how- 
ever, that you will not find in the New 
Thought System of Physical Culture any re- 
semblance whatever to the usual systems em- 
ployed for the development of the physical 
body. Nor will you at any time feel the least 
weariness in pursuing the instruction, regard- 
less of your age, and regardless of whether 
you be man or woman. 

THE END 



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